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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
in practice
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
Housing delivery stalling - role of local authorities
Renters’ Rights Act 2025 - what it means for local authorities
DOLS and Under 16s: Insights from Medway Council v A Father
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
Land value and the principle of reality
The latest Sizewell C JR
Impecuniosity and other issues in credit hire claims
Disclosure to the DBS
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AI and Lawtech solutions to the age-old problem of sourcing Counsel at short notice: A Management perspective
Navigating Local Government Reorganisation
Case study: using enforcement powers for the remediation of buildings
How Finders International Supports Council Officers
Webinars
Leaving care provisions demystified!
More Features
Arts and Culture, Community and Regeneration: The Two New Streamlined Subsidy Routes
Disclosure to the DBS
The CAT and the New Lottery Subsidy Control challenge
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
Book review: “Reforming lessons”
The draft NPPF consultation: what’s new
Mobile phones, AI and schools
Transparency in FII cases
Court documents and AI
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Claim councils are "recruiting sergeants" for "county lines" provokes angry response from directors of children’s services
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Claim issued against council decision to enter ‘safety valve agreement’ with Department for Education
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Claim that council negligently designed road which saw fatal crash was wrongly struck out, Court of Appeal finds
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Claim to consider whether private school VAT policy “unjustifiably discriminates” against SEN pupils expedited by High Court judge
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Claimant applies to Supreme Court in dispute over findings of suitability of offered accommodation in absence of lawful housing needs assessment
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Claimant behind judicial review of 4000-home development calls on council to settle dispute via mediation
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Claimant calls off judicial review action after council offers concessions on use of Care Act 'easements'
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Claimant disability discrimination law firm goes into administration
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Claimant fails in High Court challenge to grant of planning permission for creation of lake for rafting and canoeing
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Claimant fails in judicial review challenge over Qualified One-Way Costs-Shifting and discrimination claims
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Claimant fails in judicial review over SEND Review consultation and information on available remedies for tribunal in disability discrimination cases
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Claimant firm criticises practice of local authorities using panels to routinely sign off care packages
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Claimant firms call for more representative panel for review of administrative law
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Claimant from Wales loses court battle over compulsory detention in Brighton
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Claimant given permission to bring judicial review over expansion of intensive poultry industry in River Severn catchment
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Claimant group wins judicial review over retrospective effect of quashing of pre-commencement condition discharge
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Claimant in challenge over alleged failure by DCMS to investigate library cuts
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Claimant in challenge over alleged failure by DCMS to investigate library cuts
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Claimant in challenge to Sizewell C development consent vows to go to Court of Appeal
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Claimant law firm fires warning over “narrow focus” for Grenfell Tower inquiry
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