Legal teams warn of lack of resources to handle council reorganisation
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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.


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.


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.


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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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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Procurement group for academy trusts names seven firms to £22m legal services lot on professional services framework
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Procurement group YPO names seven firms to £2bn legal services framework
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Procurement launched for £7.5m contract to provide planning law advice for Parliamentary estate
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Procurement launched for framework agreement for LGPS legal services
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Procurement organisation to procure framework for professional services - including legal - for academies
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Procurement rules see city council reconsider approach to buying energy from community groups
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Professional body needed for monitoring officers, alongside increased training and sanction powers, says new research report
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Professional services and insurance group acquires defendant law firm Keoghs
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Professionals back retention of supervision orders as option for courts in care proceedings, but half call for changes to be made
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Professionals say system of remote hearings in family justice working smoothly, but parents much less positive: report
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Professionals working with child in deprivation of liberty cases need to have clear and comprehensive understanding of operational procedures of other agencies, says High Court judge
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Professor Alison Young joins Law Commission as Commissioner for Public and Welsh Law
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Profit making from children’s care in Wales set to end by 2030 through introduction of Health and Social Care (Wales) Act
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Profiteering on the back of public services “simply not acceptable”, ADCS President warns
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Prohibition on bailiff evictions extended again - now in place until 31 March, says Housing Secretary
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Prohibitive legal costs and government reforms could be behind fall in environment judicial reviews claims, foundation warns
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Projected implementation timelines for Elections Act 2022 changes are “optimistic at best, undeliverable at worst”, electoral administrators warn
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Property and costs litigation barrister joins Landmark Chambers
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Property company loses bid to keep affordable housing after Supreme Court rejects application to modify restrictive covenants
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Property company that provides accommodation for homeless suspends shares amid wait for completion of enhanced audit procedures
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