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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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Court of Appeal rejects appeal against injunction over contents of 11-plus tests
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal against injunction over contents of 11-plus tests
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal by council over designation as local authority in respect of interim care order
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal by council over ruling reuniting mother and child in different residential unit
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal by council over timing for review of suitability of accommodation where offer had been accepted
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal by ex-magistrate over dismissal for views on adoption by same-sex couple
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal by mother over dismissal of application to discharge placement orders
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal by mother over inclusion in pool of perpetrators
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal by traders over convictions for selling counterfeit goods
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal over changes made by county council to SEN transport policy affecting 16-18 year olds
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal over finding that manifest error in procurement was not “sufficiently serious” for damages award
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal over permanent exclusion, warns undue focus on public sector equality duty may risk “over-legalising” decision-making process
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal over planning committee breach, with outcome highly likely to be the same even if conduct had not occurred
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal over sufficiency of inquiries made by housing options manager
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal over summary judgment rejecting damages claim for breach of EU State aid rules in waste collection service
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal over whether council was in contempt after failure to comply with Tribunal FOI ruling
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Court of Appeal rejects as “academic” judicial review claim over ending of ‘Everyone In’ homelessness scheme
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Court of Appeal rejects bid by Welsh council to withdraw admission of liability in failure to remove case
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Court of Appeal rejects challenge by council to racial discrimination ruling
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Court of Appeal rejects challenge over enforcement notice and application of Murfitt principle
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