Sentence examples for maintained schools from inspiring English sources

What's more, while all maintained schools are required by law to comply with food standards, non-maintained and independent schools are not obliged to do so.

Unlike maintained schools, academies must have their accounts externally audited.

Sex education is currently only compulsory in maintained schools from the age of 11.

Many maintained schools continue to be under intense pressure to become academies.

"And that means the maintained schools that remain won't have the chance to become outstanding".

Birmingham city council cannot escape its own responsibility for the mess some maintained schools got into.

"Eight years ago this government abolished grant-maintained schools.

"There was a view of academies that we were basically setting up grant-maintained schools.

Academies have been in place in England since 2001 (and grant-maintained schools before that).

The 1988 Education Act brought in city technology colleges and grant-maintained schools, free of local authority control.

In addition, over a longer period, the report detected a rise in the standards of neighbouring non grant-maintained schools.