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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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Council failed to consult properly over day centre closure: Court of Appeal
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Council failed to follow correct procedure when deciding whether school transport should be provided, Ombudsman finds
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Council failed to follow proper procedure when it placed child with grandparents, Ombudsman finds
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Council failed to investigate cancer cluster concerns, Ombudsman finds as it warns it will investigate actions of Directors of Public Health
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Council failed to make valid private rented sector offers to homeless woman, court rules
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Council failed to properly consider capacity of household to make homelessness application, Ombudsman finds
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Council failed to provide education for numerous children with SEND, Ombudsman finds
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Council failed to provide safe system of work when teacher assaulted: CoA
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Council failed to provide safe system of work when teacher assaulted: CoA
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Council fails in appeal over costs award made after landowner succeeded with compulsory purchase objection
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Council fails in appeal over direction by judge that parents and child should undergo residential assessment
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Council fails in appeal over FOI request and commercial prejudice
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Council fails in appeal over power to issue mother with community protection notice regarding anti-social behaviour of son
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Council fails in appeal over quashing of permission for restaurant expansion
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Council fails in appeal over rates liability of charity that runs 200+ fitness centres
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Council fails in appeal over refusal of judge to recuse herself from hearing equal pay claims
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Council fails in appeal that FOI requester was vexatious over parking charges
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Council fails in application for security of costs as ex-recruitment contractor brings ‘poaching’ claim
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Council fails in bid for final injunction prohibiting defendants from anti-social behaviour in any public space in borough
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Council fails in bid to halt local magistrates court closure
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