Reserve below-threshold contracts for UK or local suppliers under the 2026 Order
The powers of exclusion panels
Envoys warn Tower Hamlets’ “fragile” golden triangle must improve
News
Ashfords bolsters procurement team with partner hire
Hugh James expands commercial team with partner hire
Must read

The Procurement Act 2023: One Year On -
How procurement processes are evolving
Katherine Calder and Sarah Foster 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.

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.

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
News
Features
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
Features
CMO Principle and Financial Assistance Further Clarified in Latest CAT Judgment on Subsidy Control
Make Europe Build Again – The EU Industrial Accelerator Act
The Procurement Act 2023: One Year On - How procurement processes are evolving
To lot or not to lot?
The Procurement Review Unit is now live
G-Cloud 14 to G-Cloud 15 – What is changing?
Abandoning procurements: risky business
Grenfell and debarment
Switching to direct award
High-risk contracts - what schools should know
Payment requirements under the Procurement Act 2023
Below-threshold contracts
Features
When school discipline meets disability
Evolution of the academy trust and maintained school landscape
Gender-questioning children under draft KCSIE 2026
Book review: “Reforming lessons”
Mobile phones, AI and schools
Conversion to an ‘empty’ MAT
Obvious risks: the beautiful game
Restrictive interventions and seclusion in schools
Relationships between teachers and former pupils
Mainstream means the school, not the experience
Court of Appeal rules on exclusions once again
Faith-based oversubscription criteria
SEND and pupils absent due to health needs
Annual Review of EHCPs
High-risk contracts - what schools should know
Martyn's Law marks a new chapter in school safety
Webinars
Procurement Act 2023 webinar: Key Update
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AI and Lawtech solutions to the age-old problem of sourcing Counsel at short notice: A Management perspective
Navigating Local Government Reorganisation
Case study: using enforcement powers for the remediation of buildings
How Finders International Supports Council Officers
Webinars
Leaving care provisions demystified!
Webinars
Public Sector Insights – Disability discrimination in education
More Features
The convergence of DRS, Simpler Recycling and EPR
Reserve below-threshold contracts for UK or local suppliers under the 2026 Order
CMO Principle and Financial Assistance Further Clarified in Latest CAT Judgment on Subsidy Control
Housing case alert - February 2026
The Renters Rights Act and social landlords
Book review: “Reforming lessons”
The draft NPPF consultation: what’s new
Mobile phones, AI and schools
Transparency in FII cases
Court documents and AI
What is an Officer?
The High Court on the EHRC’s “interim update”
Substituted decision notices and contempt of court
Social media guidance for members
2026 in construction: a look ahead
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Gove commits to outlawing section 21 ‘no-fault’ evictions before general election
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Gove consults on reforms to five-year housing land supply, “new flexibilities” to meeting housing needs as part of planning overhaul
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Gove faces legal challenge after disagreeing with planning inspector report and refusing permission for 165-home development
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Gove intervenes in London Plan citing housing delivery concerns
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Gove rebukes multiple social landlords for failing tenants after maladministration verdicts
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Gove sets deadline for residential property developers to agree action plan for remediation of unsafe cladding
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Gove to consult on changes to calculation of local housing need, end obligation to maintain five-year housing land supply where plans up to date
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Governance priorities for the year ahead in social housing
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Governing in uncertain times
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Government amends legislation with view to ditching Vagrancy Act 1824 but repeal only to take place when replacement laws in place
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Government and upper-tier councils agree £1.1bn East Midlands deal adopting “first of a kind” devolution model
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Government announces National Housing Bank to help finance home building
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Government Anti-Social Behaviour Action Plan to see offenders deprioritised for social housing, explore “3 strikes and you’re out” eviction expectation
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Government automated-decision making
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Government backs right to request flexible working from day one
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Government backtracks on public sector exit cap
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Government confirms introduction of ‘Awaab’s Law’ in phases from October 2025
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Government consults on “brownfield presumption” for 20 cities and towns, further extension to permitted development rights
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Government consults on amendments to homelessness legislation arising from Renters Reform Bill including end to s21 evictions
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Government consults on calculation of holiday entitlement after Supreme Court ruling
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