27 Feb, 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...
22 Jan, 2024 New guidance on Public Sector Equality Duty By Sarah Harnett The PSED, or Public Sector Equality Duty, is a set of rules that public authorities in the UK must follow when exercising their functions...
21 Dec, 2023 Looking back on 2023... with some Hollywood glamour By Libby Hubbard If 2023 started relatively slowly for HR professionals, then it has certainly picked up pace in the latter months. The new legislation...
05 Dec, 2023 New measures announced to slash net immigration - How it affects the health and social care sector By Katherine Sinclair New Home Secretary James Cleverly has just announced a five-point plan in a bid to reduce abuse in the immigration system and cut the...
11 Sep, 2023 Taking all reasonable steps to avoid discrimination: How far do you go? By Matthew Wort 'Banter' and insults whether intentional or not are the bane of most HR professionals’ lives! We all want to work in a relaxed...
04 Aug, 2023 Why diversity in medical schools and universities is important for patient care By Ann Houghton A few weeks ago I wrote an article about a call for a review of an inherently biased medical assessment of newborn babies, which the NHS...
10 Jul, 2023 ‘If not you, then who?’ The role of the HR function in ESG performance By Katherine Sinclair I wrote a blog published in Social Housing Magazine on Friday that includes some reflections arising from an interview that I did during...
16 Mar, 2023 Mandatory professional qualifications required for social housing managers By Katherine Sinclair The last days of February bought a rather shocking announcement for the sector; an amendment to the Social Housing (Regulations) Bill...
10 Jan, 2023 Re-opening disciplinary proceedings may be fair By Libby Hubbard We’ve all watched enough crime thrillers to recognise the double jeopardy rule: you can’t be tried twice for the same crime. This is not...
03 Jan, 2023 2022 – The year when decades happened By Anna Dabek Happy New Year from the employment and pensions team here at ACS! We saw out 2022 with the publication of our winter newsletter, looking...
21 Sep, 2022 Long Covid - a disability? By Jackie Morris It has already been established that people suffering from long Covid can be classified as disabled for the purposes of section 6 of the...
17 Aug, 2022 Celebrating women in housing…and it doesn’t stop there! By Katherine Sinclair Anthony Collins Solicitors were proud to sponsor the Women of the Future Awards at the recent Women in Housing Awards 2022 (part of the...