Feb 27, 2024 Charity Commission - friend or foe? By Edwina Turner For anyone working in the world of charities and over 30, you might remember a time when the Charity Commission rarely showed its teeth...
Feb 27, 2024 MAC report on the Immigration Salary List - care workers to remain By Hazel Findlay On Friday 23 February 2024, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) published its rapid review of the Immigration Salary List (ISL) which...
Feb 20, 2024 Riding to compliance: learning lessons on fire safety By Precious Mealia The owner of an equestrian yard has been fined £5,000 by Oxfordshire County Council’s Fire and Rescue Service for being in breach of a...
Feb 19, 2024 Soup's up for St Basils! By Sacha Hibbitt Last month, the trainee solicitors at Anthony Collins held a lunch club where we served up some healthy homemade tomato and basil Soup in...
Feb 19, 2024 Brace yourselves: The bar has been raised for recovering damages in public procurement claims By Amy Callahan-Page In a successful procurement claim, one of the forms of relief commonly sought is the recovery of damages. Where the automatic suspension...
Feb 19, 2024 Expansion of Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme By Adriana Klincova Announced last week, the expansion of the existing Affordable Homes Guarantee Scheme (AHGS) to a £6bn fund, will support both new...
Feb 16, 2024 Can today’s workforce ever expect to properly retire? By Lauren Broderick The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has recently updated its retirement living standards with the rising cost of living...
Feb 15, 2024 Updated right to work checks guidance for employers By Hazel Findlay UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) has produced an updated employer’s guide to right to work checks. This updates the previous guide which...
Feb 12, 2024 No changes are to be made to English language requirements in care worker visas By Jackie Morris I wrote recently about a Coroner’s case that involved the death of an elderly resident in a care home. In that case, the Coroner made...
Feb 12, 2024 Labour announces plans to extend equal pay rights By Michael Brownlee The Labour Party has announced that, should they win the next election, they would extend the specific equal pay rights, currently...
Feb 08, 2024 Consultation on mandatory qualifications for housing managers released – it’s finally here but what do we learn? By Katherine Sinclair In February 2023 Michael Gove announced that mandatory qualifications would be introduced for senior social housing managers and...
Feb 07, 2024 Technology in the public sector: guidance on using AI safely and securely By Emma Watt On 18 January 2024, the Cabinet Office and Central Digital and Data Office jointly published the Generative AI Framework for HM...