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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.
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”
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Eleanor Jones sets out
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will mean in practice
for social landlords.


Housing management
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Rebecca Rees provides
key takeaways on six key
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social behaviour.
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Rebecca Rees provides
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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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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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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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Judge reminds councils of importance of following guidance on working with parents with learning disability
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Judge remits FOI case after finding First-Tier Tribunal was wrong to strike out proceedings, amid doubts over reliability of previous evidence from council
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Judge remits SEN case to fresh hearing after tribunal overlooked naming school subject to condition that parents arrange transport at own expense
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Judge rules against council on meaning of 'needs' for Care Act assessment
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Judge rules against Jehovah's Witnesses over care proceedings and religious duty of confidentiality
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Judge rules against woman who re-entered property after locks were changed
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Judge rules birth father should have been notified of existence of child but accepts he cannot force mother to reveal his identity
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Judge rules challenge to grant of planning permission by City of London Corporation for new court building and police HQ out of time
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Judge rules council and CCG failed lawfully to assess s.117 after care services for claimant
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Judge rules council breached ECHR rights of orthodox Jewish 15-year-old boy - but not his brother - over proposal for respite placement accommodation
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Judge rules council should receive “substantial” sum as waste management dispute rumbles on
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Judge rules on dispute between councils over designation after one-year-old child placed with maternal grandmother
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Judge rules on interaction between obligations of council and Home Secretary regarding accommodation of asylum seekers with eligible care needs
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Judge rules out notifying consular authorities of adoption proceedings in "unusual case"
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Judge rules plan need not be professionally drawn in gypsy site case
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Judge rules procurement claimant was not economic operator at relevant time in dispute over largest ever contract let by council
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Judge rules terminally ill woman could leave care home to live with family despite COVID-19 restrictions
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Judge rules Tribunal erred by putting responsibility for part of EHCP on individual who was not lawful delegate or proxy for local authority
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Judge says recent case shows how exceptional circumstances must be if court is to use its power to dismiss care proceedings without having heard all the evidence
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Judge says serious issue to be tried in procurement case against social landlord but lifts automatic suspension
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