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on six key challenges in housing
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their practices and work allocation in the wake
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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.
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Below-threshold contracts
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Automatic suspensions and the public interest
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Dispersal of asylum seekers
Causation and being “homeless intentionally”
Facts still very much matter
Court of Appeal rules on exclusions once again
Faith-based oversubscription criteria
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Fact finding in the Court of Protection
Care cases involving multiple allegations
SEND and pupils absent due to health needs
Granting of parental responsibility
Managing AI Risks in Local Government
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Judge makes child arrangements order following refusal of mother initially to cooperate with proceedings and her “frankly ridiculous views” on court and social services
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Judge makes prohibitory order against individual in planning control dispute, but refuses application for “persons unknown” injunction
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Judge names council after deciding knowledge of its social services failures in care case outweighed risk of jigsaw identification of children
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Judge orders children to be taken into long-term foster care over concerns about weight
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Judge orders city council to undertake needs assessment again in ‘no recourse to public funds’ case
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Judge orders council to conduct human rights assessment about withdrawing support from failed asylum seeker
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Judge orders council to fund five-day-a-week course for disabled young people
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Judge orders council to pay £20k for breaching rights to education of two disabled children
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Judge orders dialysis treatment where refusal by 34-year-old man was manifestation of his mental disorder
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Judge orders Environment Agency to draw up plan within eight weeks to tackle water abstraction in Norfolk Broads
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Judge orders fresh hearing in dispute over disclosure of advice to council on tactics in negotiations with supermarket giant
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Judge orders fresh hearing of appeal over school places decision after successful challenge by renting residents
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Judge orders interim relief amid dispute over age assessment
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Judge orders placement for adoption for three children amid extreme over-reaction of parents to involvement of professionals
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Judge orders re-hearing of EHC Plan case after First-tier Tribunal failed to consider all the evidence
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Judge overrules council's definition of suitable accommodation
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Judge overturns bankruptcy order that serves "no useful purpose"
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Judge praises council for "brave but proper decision" to end care proceedings
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Judge quashes decision by council to amend EHC plan despite tribunal ruling
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Judge quashes decision by council to grant planning permission for conversion of pub to residential dwelling over public sector equality duty failings
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