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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
Court of Protection case update April 2026
The new PD27A: a step change in Family Court bundle and document management
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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Case study: using enforcement powers for the remediation of buildings
How Finders International Supports Council Officers
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Leaving care provisions demystified!
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DOLS and Under 16s: Insights from Medway Council v A Father
The Local Power Plan: Putting Clean Power in Communities’ Hands
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
Gender-questioning children under draft KCSIE 2026
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Family President confirms plans to extend transparency pilot to Magistrates in October
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Family President consults on reforms amid “unsustainable” volume of cases relating to children
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Family President expresses hope of “very substantial reduction” in number of public law children cases where councils have to cover shortfall in expert fees
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Family President extends suspension for public law childcare cases of requirement for sequential numbering of e-bundles
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Family President hails extension of open reporting provisions to all family courts as “watershed moment”
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Family President intervenes to halt plan to hold final hearing remotely into allegations of factitious illness
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Family President introduces requirement for court to notify Ofsted of unregistered placements where inherent jurisdiction used to authorise deprivation of liberty of child
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Family President issues guidance on final hearings in adoption applications
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Family President issues memorandum explaining principles on expert evidence, hits out at "pseudo-science"
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Family President issues national guidance for Family Court and High Court Family Division
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Family President issues revised practice guidance on approach of court to unregistered placements
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Family President launches rapid consultation on remote, hybrid and in-person hearings in family justice system and Court of Protection
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Family President outlines next steps for national Deprivation of Liberty court
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Family President predicts “very radical reduction” in amount of time that courts afford to each hearing
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Family President publishes guidance for judges on writing to children in family court proceedings
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Family President rejects bid by council for change to experts instructed in injury case
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Family President renews judicial warnings over “substantial deficit” of secure accommodation for children, accuses Department of Education of seeming to “wash its hands” of problem
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Family President sees “positive signs of change” after five months of Public Law Outline relaunch
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Family President signals need for “radical departure” from current model of how courts consider contact with birth family after adoption
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Family President suspends guidance on electronic bundles in relation to public law
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