25 Jul, 2024 Care Act duties and care home closures By Emma Watt Freya Cassia The Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (the Ombudsman) has found Wokingham Borough Council (the council) at fault for how it...
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...
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...
18 Jun, 2024 Corporate transactions with employment specialists: the perfect podcast collaboration By Laura Jordan Michael Brownlee The sale or purchase of a business is never just about the contracts, the indemnities, the warranties and the late-night negotiations;...
10 Jun, 2024 Home office decision to revoke social care provider's sponsorship licence without allowing time for representation unlawful By Katherine Sinclair Immigration may be the political hot potato of the campaign trail but for many social care providers, the employment of overseas workers...
06 Jun, 2024 Labour's workforce plans - The headlines you need to know By Matthew Wort Further to our blog following the announcement of an election, we now have some more direction from the Labour Party should they win...
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...
17 May, 2024 Ambitious, under-funded and unfulfilled: ten years of the Care Act 2014 By Emma Watt The Local Government Association (LGA) has published a report analysing the extent to which the Care Act 2014 (the Act) has achieved its...
14 May, 2024 A tale of two trade union cases By Matthew Wort It’s been a tale of two trade union cases this past month. I'm not sure if this constitutes the best of times or the worst of times – I...
08 May, 2024 Market Sustainability and Improvement Fund 2024 to 2025 By Emma Watt Important deadlines loom for local authorities wanting to make use of the £1.05 billion allocated for adult social care. The Market...
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...