Oct 26, 2022 2022 - The year of the u-turn? CSPL asks levelling up secretary to reconsider council powers to tackle member bad behaviour By Matt Marsh Following what seems like weeks of government u-turns, the committee on standards in public life (CSPL) has urged the Government to make...
Oct 25, 2022 Good governance and artificial intelligence By Emma Watt The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has launched an inquiry into the governance of artificial intelligence (AI). In the...
Oct 24, 2022 Subsidy Control Act 2022 to get all its teeth! By Steven Brunning The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has announced [1] that the operative provisions of the new UK subsidy control...
Oct 24, 2022 IICSA publishes final concluding report By Freya Cassia Precious Mealia Molly Quinney Tim Coolican +1 more... Show less Seven years after it was established in 2015, The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has now published its final...
Oct 24, 2022 Be inspired by these young people... By Anthony Collins Please spend a couple of minutes reading about this year’s Next Generation Awards (NGA) and the inspiring young people who took part. Run...
Oct 24, 2022 The CQC issues fixed penalties to University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust for failures around consent By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Precious Mealia The Care Quality Commission (CQC) issued two fixed penalties to University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust totalling £8,000 for...
Oct 24, 2022 Reflections on the 'State of Care' By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Tim Coolican Freya Cassia Precious Mealia +1 more... Show less Friday saw the publication of the CQC’s State of Care report, which draws together the evidence available across the whole health and...
Oct 21, 2022 Social Housing Regulation Bill – small changes, big impact By Victoria Jardine As the Social Housing Regulation Bill (the Bill) makes its stately progress through Parliament, the House of Lords has taken the...
Oct 19, 2022 Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme - Phase 3b applications due by the end of the month By Gayle Monk The Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS), open to a range of public sector bodies, has opened up Phase 3b, with applications due...
Oct 19, 2022 Minimising the impact of separation on children with SEND By Anthony Collins "I don't know how I'm going to keep my children warm this winter." Earlier this week, I met with the head teachers of two schools for...
Oct 19, 2022 An 11.1% rent increase? By Emma Hardman It is fair to say the rest of the Hardman household didn't quite share my enthusiasm for wanting to know the published inflation figures...
Oct 18, 2022 Charity Fraud Awareness Week By Catherine Gibbons 17-22 October this year marks Charity Fraud Awareness Week. Whilst we do not need a specific week of the year to spotlight this important...