NCTJ PUBLIC AFFAIRS UPDATED
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Academies freedoms - ✔✔- hire/fire own staff including 'unqualified' teachers
- set staff pay and conditions
- set length of school day and term times
- deviate from/adapt national curriculum
- act as own admissions authority
✔✔Community schools - ✔✔Local authority community schools are required to follow
the national curriculum and the local authority has oversight roles which include
overseeing and advising on management, policies, curriculum and admissions.
✔✔School governors - ✔✔- provide strategic leadership and accountability in state-
funded schools (including academies and free schools)
- appoint head teacher and deputy
- set staff pay
- responsible for school finance
- members of governing board
✔✔Ofsted - ✔✔- rule on objections to school admission arrangements
, - can carry out 'no notice inspections'
- schools inspected every 4-6 years
✔✔Adult care services - ✔✔- emphasis on providing support for elderly in their homes
to reduce pressure on hospitals and care homes
- improve cost-effectiveness, provide choice for 'service users'
✔✔Main services accessed via councils adult services - ✔✔- home help
- daycare
- home modifications
- help with shopping and household tasks
- cheap travel, disabled parking badges
- hot meals
- respite care
✔✔Care Act 2014 - ✔✔- asessement for all
- care and support plan
- personal budgets
- direct payments
✔✔Bed-blocking - ✔✔Where councils struggle to find care home places fo elderly due
to leave hospital
✔✔Local councils responsible - ✔✔- county councils
- unitary authorities
- london boroughs
✔✔Issues in adult social care - ✔✔- ageing population (more people needing care)
- increase in numbers suffering from dementia
- funding gap in social care
- transfer of funds/responsibilities from NHS
- use of private sector
- inadequate payments from councils to cover cost of residential care for elderly
- use of voluntary sector
- quality of care
✔✔Children's services - ✔✔- social workers (advise and support families)
- day nurseries (council, private or voluntary)
- refuges for mother's at risk
- family counselling and support classes
- residential accommodation
✔✔Child Protection - ✔✔Children in need of care and attention
- orphaned, abandoned, parent's can't provide
- at risk, neglected, beyond parental control
COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Academies freedoms - ✔✔- hire/fire own staff including 'unqualified' teachers
- set staff pay and conditions
- set length of school day and term times
- deviate from/adapt national curriculum
- act as own admissions authority
✔✔Community schools - ✔✔Local authority community schools are required to follow
the national curriculum and the local authority has oversight roles which include
overseeing and advising on management, policies, curriculum and admissions.
✔✔School governors - ✔✔- provide strategic leadership and accountability in state-
funded schools (including academies and free schools)
- appoint head teacher and deputy
- set staff pay
- responsible for school finance
- members of governing board
✔✔Ofsted - ✔✔- rule on objections to school admission arrangements
, - can carry out 'no notice inspections'
- schools inspected every 4-6 years
✔✔Adult care services - ✔✔- emphasis on providing support for elderly in their homes
to reduce pressure on hospitals and care homes
- improve cost-effectiveness, provide choice for 'service users'
✔✔Main services accessed via councils adult services - ✔✔- home help
- daycare
- home modifications
- help with shopping and household tasks
- cheap travel, disabled parking badges
- hot meals
- respite care
✔✔Care Act 2014 - ✔✔- asessement for all
- care and support plan
- personal budgets
- direct payments
✔✔Bed-blocking - ✔✔Where councils struggle to find care home places fo elderly due
to leave hospital
✔✔Local councils responsible - ✔✔- county councils
- unitary authorities
- london boroughs
✔✔Issues in adult social care - ✔✔- ageing population (more people needing care)
- increase in numbers suffering from dementia
- funding gap in social care
- transfer of funds/responsibilities from NHS
- use of private sector
- inadequate payments from councils to cover cost of residential care for elderly
- use of voluntary sector
- quality of care
✔✔Children's services - ✔✔- social workers (advise and support families)
- day nurseries (council, private or voluntary)
- refuges for mother's at risk
- family counselling and support classes
- residential accommodation
✔✔Child Protection - ✔✔Children in need of care and attention
- orphaned, abandoned, parent's can't provide
- at risk, neglected, beyond parental control
