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...
8/14/2025 8:49:45 AM Entertaining new ownership... By David Alcock It was great to read this week of the Entertainer (incidentally, the shop where my middle son always bought his Star Wars toys) moving...
7/29/2025 2:16:25 PM Procurement UnpACked: A supplier’s guide to the debarment list By Amy Callahan-Page The Act is making a (debarment) list and checking it twice… In this Procurement UnpACked, we explore one of the more dramatic changes...
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...
7/1/2025 2:40:57 PM Reflections on NFTMO 2025: Banners, banter and big ideas By Sarah Patrice Well, I’ve just about recovered from another brilliant NFTMO Annual Conference - and yes, I still haven’t figured out (or is that refuse...
6/30/2025 9:25:01 AM Reflections from NFTMO 2025 – Building safety and management: communication breakdown (and other fire hazards) By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Elizabeth Massey If you attended our session at the NFTMO conference this year, you’ll know it quickly turned into something of a legal surgery - and we...
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...
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...