17 Dec, 2021 Lessons in regulatory strategy from the HSE's annual work-related ill-health, injury and enforcement statistics By Tim Coolican On Thursday 16 December, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published its annual work-related ill-health, injury and enforcement...
17 Dec, 2021 Christmas without the children By Samantha Watson Excited or not, Christmas is fast approaching, and whilst there are the usual stresses of ensuring you have ordered the turkey and have...
16 Dec, 2021 Is "sorry but..." sometimes not enough? By Ann Houghton Doctors, nurses and other medical professionals have a 'duty of candour' to inform patients when something has gone wrong in their...
16 Dec, 2021 Local government: Investing in your area by way of loans By Adriana Klincova Follow this link to listen to a very informative podcast from Jon Coane where he talks about local authorities lending to other...
15 Dec, 2021 Chairs for the inquiries By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Today we have seen the appointment of the Chairs for the Scottish and UK Covid-19 public inquiries - Lady Poole QC and Baroness Hallett...
15 Dec, 2021 Providers must act now - making vaccination a condition of deployment By Anna Dabek The Government announced on 9 November 2021 that health and social care providers in England will be required to ensure all staff who...
09 Dec, 2021 Social care - the need for effective dispute resolution By Emma Watt The recently published social care white paper People at the Heart of Care, sets out a supposedly ambitious 10-year vision for how the...
09 Dec, 2021 Mandatory vaccination for care homes: self-certification extended By Matthew Wort The Government has decided to extend the time period for which an individual can self certify that they are exempt from vaccination until...
08 Dec, 2021 Anthony Collins Solicitors foodbank collection - BCCFB By Anthony Collins For the past few weeks, we have been organising and arranging a food collection for the Birmingham City Church’s Food Bank (BCCFB) from...
08 Dec, 2021 Building safety factsheets - existing higher-risk buildings By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Even for the most experienced building safety practitioners, the Building Safety Bill is a long and formidable read. Responding to this,...
08 Dec, 2021 The Big Sleepout – my reflections By Emma Hardman As many of you will have seen from our social media posts, on Friday night Peter Hubbard and I completed the St Basils Big Sleepout at...
07 Dec, 2021 Registered with the FCA? Read on... By David Alcock It was a pleasure to speak at Cooperative UK's Practitioners Forum last month, and to update colleagues on the latest from the Financial...