01 Nov, 2024 Budget: what does this mean for the health and social care sector? By Joe Mulrenan The general consensus across the health and social care sector is one of yet another missed opportunity to bring social care to the front...
20 Nov, 2024 JCT Measured Term Contract 2024 – what’s new? By Naomi Dowthwaite The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) has now published the Measured Term Contract 2024 (MTC 2024). This follows updates to many other...
20 Nov, 2024 The Employment Rights Bill - is it all it's cracked up to be? By Libby Hubbard This is the question we ask in our latest podcast. The dust has settled, alongside the powdery snow, and we can now ask some questions...
20 Nov, 2024 Sorry seems to be the hardest word By Ann Houghton It's not often I want to quote song lyrics but Elton John nicely sums up how frustrating the clinical negligence claim process can be...
19 Nov, 2024 Webinar: A practical guide for housing associations: Responding to the Law Commission consultation on changes to community benefit societies By Victoria Jardine Earlier this Autumn, the Law Commission launched a consultation on proposed changes to co-operative and community benefit society law and...
18 Nov, 2024 Local Government Pension Scheme consultation: One size fits all? By Doug Mullen The Government published a consultation on various proposals relating to the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) on 14 November 2024. ...
18 Nov, 2024 A new era for mutuals? By David Alcock The manifesto for the new Government committed Labour to work to double the size of the co-operative and mutual economy. We are starting...
12 Nov, 2024 Protecting trustees; is the law moving? By Esther Campsall Libby Hubbard The law places considerable responsibility on charity trustees running charitable organisations with integrity and honesty and yet there...
12 Nov, 2024 New criminal offence -'failure to prevent fraud' By Emma Watt The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (the Act) created the new corporate criminal offence of ‘failure to prevent fraud’...
12 Nov, 2024 Has the horse bolted when it comes to self-employed carers: lessons from the Bolt worker status ruling By Anna Dabek In recent years, employment status in the UK has been a critical topic, particularly for care providers who may engage carers as...
08 Nov, 2024 How can employers deliver on business and employee needs in times of policy change? By Lauren Broderick With Amazon recently announcing the end of its hybrid working policy, employers are again considering how best to balance business needs...
31 Oct, 2024 Online system error causes dozens of divorces to be wrongly approved By Elizabeth Wyatt It has long been the case that to apply for a divorce, you need to have been married for more than one year plus one day. The plus one...
31 Oct, 2024 On the ball with tax: CASCs and the latest Budget buzz By Mahnoor Butt Shauntelle Murphy Following the Budget announcement yesterday, the Government have published the outcome and summary of responses to the charities tax...