[PDF] Top 20 House of Commons Library: Briefing paper: Number 07059, 30 March 2017: FAQs: Academies and free schools

... academy? Academies can decide for themselves how they will prioritise applicants for school places, but they have to comply with national fair admission rules in doing ... See full document

... want free schools. Local authorities obviously often produce free school sites on a peppercorn for no ...the schools to be and, effectively, an open process is then gone through whereby school ... See full document

... the Schools Minister Nick Gibb expanded on the Government position: We believe that [local authorities] are best placed to determine how resources should be used in the areas that they serve and to balance the ... See full document

... significant number of respondents indicated that they disagreed with the proposed changes, but analysis of the related comments revealed that this was because of misunderstanding the effect or raising issues that ... See full document

... Maria Miller: My hon. Friend is right to raise this issue, which has been a concern for many of our constituents. I can confirm that nothing will change what children are taught. Teachers will be able to describe their ... See full document

... the Schools Minister Nick Gibb expanded on the Government position: We believe that [local authorities] are best placed to determine how resources should be used in the areas that they serve and to balance the ... See full document

... voluntary schools, local authorities can also propose that a school’s premises be enlarged by following a streamlined statutory process set out in ...15 Academies wishing to enlarge their premises need to ... See full document

... on free school ...of academies in the ...of academies in their area and has the power to overturn their ...National Schools Commissioner, Sir David Carter, and their performance is assessed ... See full document

... primary schools. To sustain the impact of the premium, schools have used it to invest in training for existing ...ends. Schools also raised issues related to sourcing good quality provision in their ... See full document

... all academies, each university technical college (UTC) is responsible for publicising their school and encouraging ...new schools. Statutory guidance to schools on careers guidance is clear that they ... See full document

... Children, Schools and Families looked at the intake of grammar schools in comparison to that of their local ...that free school meal rates in grammars were not representative of their local ...of ... See full document

... voluntary schools, local authorities can also propose that a school’s premises be enlarged by following a streamlined statutory process set out in ...15 Academies wishing to enlarge their premises need to ... See full document

... independent schools not meeting the relevant criteria from charitable status: ...independent schools are expected to meet, in line with their size and ...independent schools deliver these new ... See full document

... mainstream free schools approved in waves 5-11 in areas where there was a need for extra school places or there is a projected need for new places in the ...the free school located in and those ... See full document

... 15 March the Chancellor announced that the Government would not proceed with the first of these reforms: in a letter to the Chair of the Treasury Select Committee Mr Hammond stated that there “would be no ... See full document

... The Government’s FAQs page on school admissions issues includes the following overview: Q 23. When does my child have to start full-time school? By law children have to be in school full-time in the term after ... See full document

... forward march has since reversed, with both generation X [born 1966-80] and the millennials [born 1981- 2000] less likely than previous generations to own their own ...age 30, baby boomers were 50 per cent ... See full document

... of schools, staff had received little or no training to teach PSHE ...these schools. 17 The report recommended that schools should “ensure that staff teaching PSHE education receive subject-specific ... See full document

... In a Westminster Hall debate on AS levels and A levels in April 2013, the then Schools Minister, David Laws, explained why the Government were making the changes: ...We want to give students a better experience of ... See full document

... In a Westminster Hall debate on AS levels and A levels in April 2013, the then Schools Minister, David Laws, explained why the Government were making the changes: ...We want to give students a better experience of ... See full document