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Free schools listed on this page all have formal local authority representation on the board of trustees. The list is not exhaustive. The list is not exhaustive. It is possible for a local authority to sponsor a free school in partnership with other organisations, provided they have no more than a 19.9% representation on the board. [ 1 ]
Michaela Community School is a free school with sixth form in London. A free school in England is a type of academy established since 2010 under the Cameron–Clegg government's free school policy initiative. [1] From May 2015, usage of the term was formally extended to include new academies set up via a local authority competition. [2]
All state schools are subject to assessment and inspection by the government department Ofsted (the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills). England also has private schools (some of which are known as public schools) and home education; legally, parents may choose to educate their children by any suitable means.
The National Tutoring Programme is a UK Government scheme announced in June 2020 [1] and launched in November that year [2] forming part of a £1.7 billion catch-up fund to try to address learning loss during the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] [3] It outsources the tutoring of school children to 33 organisations, [4] most of them private companies. The ...
Free schools, introduced by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition following the 2010 general election, are newly established schools in England set up by parents, teachers, universities, charities or businesses, where there is a perceived local need for more schools. They are funded by taxpayers, are academically non-selective and free to ...
The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) is the statutory framework for early years education in England, or, as stated on the UK government website: "The standards that school and childcare providers must meet for the learning, development and care of children from birth to 5". The term was defined in the British government's Childcare Act 2006 ...
The Education and Training (Welfare of Children) Act 2021 (c. 16) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.The act amends the Education Act 2002 and the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 to expand safeguarding requirements to providers of publicly funded post-16 education (namely, new "16-19 academies" and providers of T-Levels) and ensure that public funds are ...
The Assisted Places Scheme was established in the UK by the Conservative government in 1980.Children who were eligible were provided with free or subsidised places to fee-charging independent schools - based on the child's results in the school's entrance examination (the fees contributions charged were based on an annual means test).