12/23/2025 2:25:49 PM Adult social care priorities for local authorities: 2026 to 2027 By Emma Watt The Government plans to implement major changes to local government funding from 2026. In exchange for more flexibility, local...
12/17/2025 3:09:10 PM Employment lessons learnt in 2025 - here’s our juke box of goodies By Libby Hubbard 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...
12/17/2025 10:17:11 AM Renters Rights Act - guidance and fines for private landlords By Helen Tucker The Government has produced further guidance for private landlords on the Renters Rights Act in readiness for the changes that come into...
12/15/2025 4:47:20 PM Which toilet facilities should transgender employees use? By Jackie Morris You know the saying about buses – you wait ages for one and then two come at once? As we all know, this does not apply just to buses; it...
12/12/2025 8:30:00 AM PFI Fridays #9: Asset condition surveys - A practical roadmap for Expiry By Emma Beynon In previous PFI Fridays blogs, we have introduced expiry timelines and managing the evolving building safety landscape. This week’s...
12/10/2025 1:26:54 PM Non binary employee not protected by Equality Act 2010 - first case post FWS decision By Libby Hubbard The first tribunal case concerning protection against discrimination for nonbinary employees to be decided after the For Women Scotland...
12/10/2025 10:12:43 AM Turning up the volume on redevelopment break clauses By Phil Scully Rhys Baker Isabella Davies A recent decision of the Central London County Court (Ministry of Sound Ltd v The British and Foreign Wharf Company Ltd & others [2025])...
12/5/2025 11:06:05 AM PFI Fridays #8: Key takeaways from the Operational PPP Summit and Awards 2025 By Emma Beynon Alex Lawrence This week saw the Operational PPP Summit (OP3S) arrive in Wales for 2-3 days of panel discussions, breakout sessions, awards and...
12/3/2025 5:40:35 PM Non-commercial considerations: Achieving local impact By Gayle Monk Section 17 of the Local Government Act 1988 restricts local authorities from taking into account 'non-commercial considerations' when...
12/1/2025 4:35:04 PM Navigating safeguarding investigations: A guide for housing and care providers By Lorna Kenyon-Pain As part of our ‘Safeguarding in the community’ series, we hosted a webinar with the Social Care Institute for Excellence on partnership...
11/28/2025 12:31:08 PM PFI Fridays #7: Budget 2025 - infrastructure, partnerships and local power By Emma Beynon Our focus with PFI Fridays is often the expiry of the legacy PFI contracts from the 2000s/2010s and handback of those facilities into the...
11/26/2025 4:39:55 PM Martyn’s Law: What you need to know before 2027 By Christopher Bowen The introduction of the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Act 2025 (the Act), known as Martyn’s Law, was created in the wake of the...