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Weekly mandatory food
waste collections
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councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy
and resource management team explain.
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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.
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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
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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.
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Eleanor Jones sets out
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key takeaways on six key
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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
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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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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 not liable for actions of third parties on children in its care, Supreme Court rules
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Council not required to disclose advice of independent person: Tribunal
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Council obtains 10-year banning order against landlord following “long history of non-compliance”
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Council obtains injunction to prevent sale of Tudor overmantel from listed building
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Council obtains injunction to secure affordable housing provision on development site
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Council obtains legal advice suggesting it can depart from standard method for calculating housing need
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Council obtains temporary injunction to protect 158 sites in borough from illegal encampments
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Council offers to plant trees equivalent to legal costs if protesters end action
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Council officers responsible for enforcing regulations requiring businesses to close during lockdown
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Council ordered to disclose further information on incinerator deal
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Council ordered to pay £150k after wall collapse injures girl
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Council ordered to pay £230k after working injured when re-laying ice rink
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Council ordered to pay £68k on account in costs over coroner burial policy case
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Council ordered to pay costs after settling judicial review claim over failure to take enforcement action on church conversion
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Council ordered to pay out £150k after tree branch fell and killed driver’s baby
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Council ordered to reconsider homelessness status of convicted offender over failure to recognise intervening event
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Council ordered to undertake re-assessment of age of asylum seeker
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Council orders 204-home development to be torn down over significant deviations from planning permission
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Council overturns allotment change-of-use ban at CoA
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Council overturns FTT decision on timing of 'fit and proper' test
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