26 Jul, 2024 Key considerations when acquiring a children's nursery By Abbey Jones Following the introduction of funded childcare spaces for working parents and the influx of parents looking for childcare spaces for...
03 Jul, 2024 Menopause in the workplace - ignorance is not bliss… it’s expensive! The perils of ignoring an OH report By Sarah Harnett Engaging with your occupational health (OH) professional and following their advice formed the basis of our recent podcast. Only two...
01 Jul, 2024 Subject access requests – when to weed out third-party data By Emma Watt Libby Hubbard There are things in life, like taxes and laundry, that we know are necessary for democracy and cleanliness respectively but are just a...
25 Jun, 2024 On-call and standby shifts – working time or not? By Katherine Sinclair Libby Hubbard The Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR) can be problematic in so far as they only differentiate between working time and rest time, yet...
21 Jun, 2024 Investigation into chatbot - a 'warning shot for industry' By Emma Watt The ICO has concluded its investigation into Snap Inc.’s use of its 'My AI' chatbot feature on the Snapchat platform. The My AI chatbot...
20 Jun, 2024 School sickness absence - Three top tips By Sarah Harnett According to Employer Link's recent analysis of academy trust workforce costs document, levels of sickness absence in academies almost...
17 Jun, 2024 Academies and LGPS pass-through arrangements By Doug Mullen The DfE has provided welcome clarity on what approvals are needed when an academy enters into an agreement with a contractor to share the...
12 Jun, 2024 Updates to Keeping Children Safe in Education for 2024 By Katherine Sinclair The Department of Education has now updated its statutory guidance for schools and colleges - Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE)...
22 May, 2024 Muddying the waters of volunteer status By Katherine Sinclair Esther Campsall Volunteers are the lifeblood of many charitable organisations. Those organisations could not exist without them, but neither could they...
21 May, 2024 A conversation about sushi – small talk, or harassment? By Jackie Morris In the case of Sato-Rossberg -v- SOAS University of London, an employment judge has dismissed claims by a Japanese professor that she was...
03 May, 2024 In case you missed it: key takeaways from our webinar on exclusions and debarment under the Procurement Act 2023 By Amy Callahan-Page Earlier this week, my colleague Dr Steven Brunning and I held a webinar to outline the main changes to the exclusions provisions that the...
03 May, 2024 Department for Education publishes guidance on procuring school uniforms By Rumandeep Dhariwal The Department for Education has recently published updated guidance on procuring school uniform supplies. The guidance is aimed at...