6/18/2025 8:20:39 AM Byte-sized reform: The Data (Use and Access) Bill explained By Rumandeep Dhariwal After a slightly surprising amount of back and forth between the Commons and Lords, the Data (Use and Access) Bill (DUAB) is finally set...
6/12/2025 9:09:20 AM Spending Review and the social economy By David Alcock What the 2025 Spending Review means for social businesses: Five key takeaways The UK Government’s 2025 Spending Review sets out long-term...
6/9/2025 8:33:42 AM What the Shared Ownership Code means for you By Digby Morgan Last week, the Shared Ownership Council (a body comprising RPs, housebuilders and lenders) published the Shared Ownership Code (the...
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...
4/28/2025 2:59:40 PM Spotlight on children's social care reforms By Precious Mealia In November 2024, the Government unveiled a comprehensive reform plan aimed at overhauling the children's social care system through the...
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...
4/7/2025 11:33:02 AM £20m coming to a community near you? How are we going to learn from previous programmes? By Sarah Patrice The Government announced the new Plan for Neighbourhoods £1.5bn funding pot, last month, which I'm sure will be very welcome news for the...
3/24/2025 7:34:37 PM Duty to prevent sexual harassment; equalities watchdog is taking it seriously By Anna Dabek McDonalds is back in our headlines. The BBC has recently reported on the alarming rates of sexual harassment of its staff rising to such...
3/4/2025 12:47:50 PM Leasehold Reform – small steps now, huge steps in the future By Emma Hardman On 3 March 2025, changes in the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 (LFRA 2024) intended to enable leaseholders to more easily...
2/13/2025 5:10:08 PM Higgs v Farmor's School - proportionate responses and protected beliefs By Libby Hubbard The case of Kirstie Higgs and her previous employer, Farmor's School, has finally been decided by the Court of Appeal. Her dismissal was...
2/12/2025 3:52:09 PM How best to care? By David Alcock I was very struck today by the paper released by Care England and the Employee Ownership Association (EOA) on the contribution that...