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Weekly mandatory food
waste collections
What are the new rules on food waste collections and why are
councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy
and resource management team explain.
Weekly mandatory food
waste collections
What are the new rules on food waste collections and why are
councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy
and resource management team explain.


The Procurement Act 2023: One Year On -
How procurement processes are evolving
Katherine Calder and Sarah Foster of DAC Beachcroft focus on
changes to procurement design at selection and tender stage in
three key areas of change that the Act introduced.
The Procurement Act 2023: One Year On -
How procurement processes are evolving
Katherine Calder and Sarah Foster of DAC Beachcroft focus on
changes to procurement design at selection and tender stage in
three key areas of change that the Act introduced.


Service charge recovery
and the Building Safety Act 2022
Zoe McGovern, Sian Gibbon and Caroline Frampton set out
what local authorities need to consider when it comes to
the Building Safety Act 2022 and service charge recovery.
Service charge recovery
and the Building Safety Act 2022
Zoe McGovern, Sian Gibbon and Caroline Frampton set out
what local authorities need to consider when it comes to
the Building Safety Act 2022 and service charge recovery.


Fix it fast: How “Awaab’s Law”
is forcing action
Eleanor Jones sets out
what "Awaab's Law"
will mean in practice
for social landlords.
Fix it fast: How “Awaab’s Law”
is forcing action
Eleanor Jones sets out
what "Awaab's Law"
will mean in practice
for social landlords.


Housing management
in practice
Rebecca Rees provides
key takeaways on six key
challenges in housing
management including
how to tackle anti-
social behaviour.
Housing management
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Rebecca Rees provides
key takeaways on six key
challenges in housing
management including
how to tackle anti-
social behaviour.


Why AI must power
the next wave
of Social Housing
delivery
For years, national housing policy has wrestled with the tension
between aspiration and delivery. Targets have been set and missed;
waiting lists have grown longer and the most vulnerable people
in our society have been left with fewer safe, affordable places to
call home. Technology has a key role to play to address this
situation writes Andrew Lloyd of Search Acumen.
Why AI must power
the next wave
of Social Housing
delivery
For years, national housing policy has wrestled with the
tension between aspiration and delivery. Targets have been
set and missed; waiting lists have grown longer, and the
most vulnerable people in our society have been left with fewer
safe, affordable places to call home. Technology has a
key role to play to address this situation writes Andrew Lloyd
of Search Acumen.

Local Government Reorganisation 2026
Features
Self-grants of planning permission, functional separation and demolition avoidance
The lawfulness of emailing licensing decision notices
Intervention: the Monitoring Officer’s view
The role of the backbench councillor
FOI and information held on computer systems
Correcting mistakes in public decision making
The Supreme Court on termination of JCT contracts
The powers of exclusion panels
Removal from kinship care
When school discipline meets disability
Navigating the expansion of foster care
No "clinical decision" exemption from best interests
Adoption vs long-term fostering
Care leavers and redaction of records
“Unusual facts and procedural irregularities”
Planning appeals and costs awards
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Case study: using enforcement powers for the remediation of buildings
How Finders International Supports Council Officers
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Leaving care provisions demystified!
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Care leavers and redaction of records
“Unusual facts and procedural irregularities”
Planning appeals and costs awards
Land value and the principle of reality
The latest Sizewell C JR
Impecuniosity and other issues in credit hire claims
Disclosure to the DBS
Gender-questioning children under draft KCSIE 2026
The convergence of DRS, Simpler Recycling and EPR
Housing case alert - February 2026
The Renters Rights Act and social landlords
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County council agrees exit deal with £10m+ payment after Carillion collapse
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County council agrees to pay more than £12,000 over missed education
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County council agrees to review resourcing of SEN services following Ombudsman investigation
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County council defeats judicial review challenge over closure of 19 out of 35 children’s centres
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County council defeats legal challenge to conversion of school to academy
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County council fined £200k over disturbance of asbestos at primary school
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County council granted fresh injunction over 11+ exam information
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County council hit by legal challenge to children’s centres closure plans
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County council hits out at latest judicial review challenge to permission for new secondary school
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County council proposes £5k ‘fine’ per excluded pupil for schools
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County council secures spot on £272m wider public sector framework
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County council threatened with legal action in bid to have trans inclusion toolkit removed
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County council to back pay £8k in personal budget payments for child after Ombudsman finds "numerous and serious failings"
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County council to pay more than £13k for EHC plan failures
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County council to pay more than £8k for multiple SEND failings
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County council to procure £25m legal services framework
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County councils call for “immediate clarity” on how Government plans to manage multi-billion-pound SEND deficits
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County defeats High Court challenge by parish over siting of new primary school near air force base
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County defeats High Court challenge by parish over siting of new primary school near air force base
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County faces judicial review challenge over school transport policy changes and vulnerable pupils
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