{"id":38160,"date":"2014-01-24T16:57:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9efabb99e3f8eaaca879c329144f2970"},"modified":"2014-01-24T16:57:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T16:57:17","slug":"news-story-department-for-education-awards-grant-to-new-schools-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=38160","title":{"rendered":"News story: Department for Education awards grant to New Schools Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Following a competitive bidding process, the Department for Education has approved grant funding for New Schools Network (<abbr title=\"New Schools Network\">NSN<\/abbr>) to provide pre-application support to parents, teachers and community groups and others hoping to open free schools. The grant will also allow <abbr title=\"New Schools Network\">NSN<\/abbr> to support free schools in the pipeline and open free schools. <abbr title=\"New Schools Network\">NSN<\/abbr> is a registered charity.<\/p>\n<p>The grant will be for the financial years 2014 to 2015 and 2015 to 2016. There is an option to extend the grant for 1 year beyond this.<\/p>\n<p>The grant is expected to commence on 1 April 2014, subject to final negotiations on the grant agreement. This will be published in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The grant was awarded after a rigorous bid assessment conducted by senior department officials.<\/p>\n<p>Some 15 groups requested information about how to bid for the grant, with 3 applications being made. <abbr title=\"New Schools Network\">NSN<\/abbr> was judged to have submitted the strongest bid as evaluated against the published award criteria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/letter-to-the-new-schools-network-nsn\">Read the letter from the department, informing <abbr title=\"New Schools Network\">NSN<\/abbr> of their successful bid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Schools Network will provide pre-application support to those hoping to open free schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}