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Weekly mandatory food
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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.
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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.
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.
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Eleanor Jones sets out
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for social landlords.


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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.

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Dispensing with notice to father
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The ERA – Benefits and Working Conditions
Asylum hotels, overcrowding and the HMO rules
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The role of the backbench councillor
FOI and information held on computer systems
Correcting mistakes in public decision making
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Removal from kinship care
When school discipline meets disability
Navigating the expansion of foster care
No "clinical decision" exemption from best interests
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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
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Disclosure to the DBS
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Court of Appeal allows appeal by council over lawfulness of schools reorganisation decision
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Court of Appeal fires warning of contempt proceedings in future after barristers chambers inadvertently violates embargo on publication of contents of draft judgment
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Court of Appeal grants judicial review application from Welsh Government of the Internal Market Act
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Court of Appeal hands down key ruling on nature of 'secure accommodation'
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Court of Appeal refuses claimant parents permission to appeal Welsh sex education ruling
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Court of Appeal rejects appeal over planning committee breach, with outcome highly likely to be the same even if conduct had not occurred
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Court of Appeal rejects bid by Welsh council to withdraw admission of liability in failure to remove case
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Court of Appeal to hear council case that claimants with low value damages claims should exhaust internal complaints process before litigation
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Court of Appeal upholds "unparalelled" Housing (Wales) Act 2014 eviction rules
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Cumbria County Council legal team and Swansea Council solicitor shortlisted for Law Society Excellence Awards
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Current court estate for civil justice in Cardiff is “untenable”, says Lady Chief Justice
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Cyfraith ddwy-ieithog a’r iaith Gymraeg yn y Llys Gweinyddol
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Delays in local government accounts "pose real risk to good governance", warns Auditor General for Wales
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Deliberate deception should be offence for Senedd politicians and election candidates, says standards committee
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Delivering Infrastructure in Wales: Current issues
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Department of Health and Social Care issues ‘roadmap regulations’
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Developer loses Supreme Court battle over implementation of successive planning permissions
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Devolved powers and the internal market post-Brexit
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Discussions between Welsh Government and UK Government over future of justice in Wales to begin “shortly”: Counsel General
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Divisional Court hands down ruling on requirements for charges under s. 179 TCPA
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