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and delivery. Targets have been set and missed; waiting lists have grown longer,
and the most vulnerable people in our society have been left with fewer safe,
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Highways, kerbs and intervention levels
Local government reorganisation and historic liabilities
The status of co-opted members
Fear of harm and plans for adoption
Foster carers and manifestation of religious belief
Judging the use of AI
Natural justice and costs in the Court of Protection
Costs, detailed assessment and misconduct
Airport expansion, EIAs and emissions
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Unlocking legal talent
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Calculation of Biodiversity Net Gain
The new National Licensing Policy Framework
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Caravan site licensing and planning control
From 1925 to 2025
Self-neglect and capacity
The lost enforcement of section 21
Housing case alert - November 2025
Section 21 - It’s not over yet
Expert evidence in housing conditions claims
Inquests and Housing
Is there a discretion to extinguish CIL?
Meaning of father in s2 Children Act 1989
A “43 moment” for the local government workforce
Growing apart?
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Select committee to probe "£700m shortfall" in DWP housing refunds to councils
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Select committee to scrutinise Government strategy for reform of children’s social care
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Select committee urges Government action to ensure councils are not “aggressively chasing” council tax from those who can least afford it
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Select committee warns of overreliance on temporary accommodation amid unsustainable pressure on council finances
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Selection process begun for appointment of Supreme Court justices to replace retiring Lord Lloyd-Jones and Lady Arden
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Selection process launched for up to eight Court of Appeal judges
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Selective licensing offences and the level of civil penalties
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Self-builder loses High Court legal challenge over refusal of CIL exemption
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Self-builders, CIL exemptions and retrospective planning permission
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Selling food after its "use by" date
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Selling local authority legal services
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SEN and COVID-19
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SEN provision and the child’s wishes and feelings
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SEND and Alternative Provision system “very likely” to become financially unsustainable: Department for Education
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SEND reform: the Commissioner’s view
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SEND reforms have “failed to make system less adversarial for parents”
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SEND Review – right support, right place, right time
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SEND system “financially unsustainable” and “in urgent need of reform”, spending watchdog warns
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SEND system creates “perverse incentives” to shift responsibility between public bodies, independent report finds
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SEND Tribunal case law review
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