special measures
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[edit]Noun
[edit]special measures pl (plural only)
- (UK) External administration for a failing public service such as a school or hospital.
- 2004, K.B. Everard, Geoff Morris, Ian Wilson, Effective School Management, SAGE, →ISBN, page 228:
- The LEA is required to support schools in special measures or with serious weaknesses.
- 2006, Great Britain. National Audit Office, Improving Poorly Performing Schools in England, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, page 37:
- Before the 2005 Schools White Paper, schools put into Special Measures have been aware that they might face closure if they did not improve within about two years.
- 2013, Selchouk Sami, The Book on Entrepreneurship and Property: The Guide to Successful Entrepreneurship and Property Investment, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 78:
- The governments new proposals intend to make the following changes and introductions: [...] Placing underperforming council planning departments into “special measures” and allowing developers to bypass them if they fail to improve.
- 2015, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP), Good Governance Handbook, Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) →ISBN, page 22
- These organisations were put into special measures and their boards placed under high levels of scrutiny around how they were focusing on quality and patient safety issues.
- (Scots law) Judicial systems to protect vulnerable witnesses in courts of law.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see special, measures.