Sentence examples for governors autonomy from inspiring English sources

When giving governors autonomy the government must re-invest what it has stripped out in the past five years.

"It is all very well giving prison governors autonomy to improve rehabilitation and education," said Frances Crook, of the Howard League for Penal Reform, "but you are not autonomous if your prison is so full you can't let prisoners out of their cells.

Coates is very positive about Gove's plan to give prison governors more autonomy and introduce prison league tables, which will include assessment of education provision.

The government wants to give governors more autonomy and this will be achieved with the prison reform programme referenced in the Queen's speech.

She told the Commons justice committee that she wanted to speed up the pace of change, including giving governors greater autonomy, as Gove suggested, but was looking at the "overall system".

It is understood Mr Cameron wants to give up to half of all prison governors complete autonomy over how they run their institutions within five years to improve re-offending rates, in a move modelled on the Government's school academy programme.

Criminal justice expert, Rob Allen, a former member of the youth justice board, said that Gove's ideas of enabling prisoners to earn early release through education, giving prison governors more autonomy, and selling Victorian prisons to fund modern jails were all proposed in a Conservative 2008 green paper, Prisons with a Purpose.

Because of the current anarchy, governors have inadvertent autonomy now – which is fine if they are good and disastrous if they are not up to the immense challenges.

The white paper does nothing to address the structural change essential to allowing a more devolved approach that tackles over-centralisation and gives governors greater local autonomy and accountability.

State agencies are a part of the executive branch, and commissioners are appointees of the governor, but their autonomy has varied among administrations.

We should be optimistic about Michael Gove's new "reform prisons" where governors will have true autonomy and accountability.