9/12/2025 10:41:55 AM PFI Fridays #1 - PFI expiry and handback: A big moment for public sector infrastructure By Emma Beynon Alex Lawrence It’s back-to-school time, and with it comes a familiar flurry of activity, sharpened pencils, and a renewed focus on our public...
9/1/2025 3:09:25 PM LGPS: SAB calls for ban on incentives for employees to leave By Doug Mullen The Scheme Advisory Board (SAB) for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has recommended that the Government change the law to...
8/14/2025 2:59:58 PM Ofsted safeguarding reforms: What’s changing for nurseries By Precious Mealia From 1 September 2025, the Department for Education will introduce statutory safeguarding reforms to the Early Years Foundation Stage...
7/29/2025 12:54:22 PM Procurement UnpACked: Contracting authorities' debarment list duties By Amy Callahan-Page The debarment list In this Procurement UnpACked, we explore one of The Procurement Act 2023’s more dramatic changes: the introduction of...
7/8/2025 2:46:31 PM Employment Rights Bill - Update #7; new amendments By Anna Dabek Libby Hubbard Here we are again with yet more ‘fun and games’ with the Employment Rights Bill. We now have the House of Lords amendments published on...
7/8/2025 10:03:58 AM Employment law update 2025 - what's happened so far? By Libby Hubbard For us employment law geeks, it’s probably fair to say that the twin peaks of 2025 to date have been a lengthy Bill in progress and a...
7/2/2025 2:49:08 PM Employment Rights Bill - Update #6: the road map By Anna Dabek Libby Hubbard It's always great (and somewhat surprising) when the 'powers that be' do what is promised. But so it came to pass with the ERB...
6/18/2025 8:20:39 AM The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 By Rumandeep Dhariwal Ben Pumphrey After a slightly surprising amount of back and forth between the Commons and Lords, the Data (Use and Access) Bill has now received Royal...
5/30/2025 1:28:02 PM Mediating PFIs: A potentially underused tool for unlocking contract disputes By Emma Beynon Andrew Lancaster Whilst we are watching what happens with the pipeline of new infrastructure Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) – see our colleague Jon...
5/21/2025 1:45:07 PM Can you dismiss an employee for social media posts? By Hannah Bollard Libby Hubbard We are told that Gary Lineker leaving the BBC was a ‘mutual’ decision and there was no dismissal. Let’s imagine that there was no...
4/29/2025 3:30:29 PM April increases to statutory payments By Libby Hubbard To paraphrase the Kipling poem very badly, if you can keep your head and apply the April statutory increases when all around you there is...
4/9/2025 10:16:37 AM Procurement UnpACked: Using KPIs to drive accountability and performance By Sophie McFie-Hyland Chanel Quigley Contracting authorities will have seen that there is a range of obligations relating to key performance indicators (KPIs) under the...