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The approximate annual cost of replacing volunteers with paid staff across the UK would be £16.4billion; they are a resource many...

Back in October 2025, I reported that the Government has now confirmed the timeline for introducing the new Competency and Conduct...

We’ve noticed a real increase in claims from employers recently, and we’re not the only ones. HMCTS has just published the minutes from...

The Government has confirmed that the pensions auto-enrolment thresholds for the year beginning April 2026 will be frozen, as they have...

You can’t hurry love, and you can’t hurry an employment rights bill either In this, the third and final draft of this paragraph, I can...

As I pen this, I am imagining HM King Charles III sitting at his breakfast table and down plonks a 300-page document, splashing the milk...

The first tribunal case concerning protection against discrimination for nonbinary employees to be decided after the For Women Scotland...

The Chancellor’s Autumn Budget has delivered a big change for salary sacrifice pension contributions - and it’s one employers can’t...

Two more consultations complete the set that the Government published on 23 October (see our blog on the other two consultations on trade...

Half term approaches and the Government has given us some reading material as we hunker down to the dark nights of autumn/winter 2025. ...

On 30 September 2025, the Government published its response to the consultation on the Competence and Conduct Standard for Social...

The Scheme Advisory Board (SAB) for the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) has recommended that the Government change the law to...