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Weekly mandatory food
waste collections
What are the new rules on food waste collections and why are
councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy
and resource management team explain.
Weekly mandatory food
waste collections
What are the new rules on food waste collections and why are
councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy
and resource management team explain.


The Procurement Act 2023: One Year On -
How procurement processes are evolving
Katherine Calder and Sarah Foster of DAC Beachcroft focus on
changes to procurement design at selection and tender stage in
three key areas of change that the Act introduced.
The Procurement Act 2023: One Year On -
How procurement processes are evolving
Katherine Calder and Sarah Foster of DAC Beachcroft focus on
changes to procurement design at selection and tender stage in
three key areas of change that the Act introduced.


Service charge recovery
and the Building Safety Act 2022
Zoe McGovern, Sian Gibbon and Caroline Frampton set out
what local authorities need to consider when it comes to
the Building Safety Act 2022 and service charge recovery.
Service charge recovery
and the Building Safety Act 2022
Zoe McGovern, Sian Gibbon and Caroline Frampton set out
what local authorities need to consider when it comes to
the Building Safety Act 2022 and service charge recovery.


Fix it fast: How “Awaab’s Law”
is forcing action
Eleanor Jones sets out
what "Awaab's Law"
will mean in practice
for social landlords.
Fix it fast: How “Awaab’s Law”
is forcing action
Eleanor Jones sets out
what "Awaab's Law"
will mean in practice
for social landlords.


Housing management
in practice
Rebecca Rees provides
key takeaways on six key
challenges in housing
management including
how to tackle anti-
social behaviour.
Housing management
in practice
Rebecca Rees provides
key takeaways on six key
challenges in housing
management including
how to tackle anti-
social behaviour.


Why AI must power
the next wave
of Social Housing
delivery
For years, national housing policy has wrestled with the tension
between aspiration 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, affordable places to
call home. Technology has a key role to play to address this
situation writes Andrew Lloyd of Search Acumen.
Why AI must power
the next wave
of Social Housing
delivery
For years, national housing policy has wrestled with the
tension between aspiration 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, affordable places to call home. Technology has a
key role to play to address this situation writes Andrew Lloyd
of Search Acumen.

Local Government Reorganisation 2026
Features
The Hillsborough Law Bill: implications for public bodies
Dispensing with notice to father
Court of Protection case update April 2026
The ERA – Benefits and Working Conditions
Asylum hotels, overcrowding and the HMO rules
Defective but not fatal
Intervention: the Monitoring Officer’s view
The role of the backbench councillor
FOI and information held on computer systems
Correcting mistakes in public decision making
The Supreme Court on termination of JCT contracts
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How Finders International Supports Council Officers
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Leaving care provisions demystified!
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Housing delivery stalling - role of local authorities
Renters’ Rights Act 2025 - what it means for local authorities
DOLS and Under 16s: Insights from Medway Council v A Father
The powers of exclusion panels
Removal from kinship care
When school discipline meets disability
Navigating the expansion of foster care
No "clinical decision" exemption from best interests
Local Government Reorganisation 2026
Adoption vs long-term fostering
Care leavers and redaction of records
“Unusual facts and procedural irregularities”
Planning appeals and costs awards
Land value and the principle of reality
The latest Sizewell C JR
Impecuniosity and other issues in credit hire claims
Disclosure to the DBS
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Council fears over ability to meet statutory duty on adult care market stability
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Council finances "fast approaching a cliff-edge", says chair of Public Accounts Committee
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Council fined £1.4m after child suffers life-changing head injury in “easily preventable” incident
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Council fined £145k for disclosing sensitive personal data about alleged gang members
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Council fined £16k after school technician lost finger while operating machine
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Council fined £200k after man injured installing town’s Christmas tree
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Council fined £27k after guilty plea over its Legionella management systems
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Council fined £28k after construction worker suffers serious injuries to right arm
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Council fined £300k after dog walker hit by tree on public footpath
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Council fined £500k after first prosecution by CQC over failure to provide safe care
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Council forced to apply for retrospective planning permission for ground source heat pumps after thinking it was unnecessary
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Council forced to go down judicial review route after planning permissions issued in error during software testing
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Council forced to rerun entire parish council election after administrative error
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Council forced to retake key decision over administrative error
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Council found at fault for failing to offer alternative educational provision when looked after child moved in with new family
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Council found in breach of Home Standard with one in five fire inspections overdue and 1,500+ homes going without electrical safety inspection for 10 years
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Council found in contempt and ordered to pay £35,000 costs over Environmental Information Regulations failings
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Council found to have breached Equality Act 2010 after claimant accountants subject to “unwanted conduct of a sexual nature” by fellow employee
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Council funding gap of £3.5bn is set to rise to more than £7bn by 2025, union research suggests
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Council gets default ruling set aside in £6m mesothelioma case despite "inexcusable" delay
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