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Education purchasing body to undertake market engagement as it brings legal framework management back in-house
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Education purchasing consortium fires gun on procurement of £12m legal services framework
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Education regulator in Wales awards £1.7m contract to law firm
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Education regulator in Wales to appoint legal adviser to fitness to practice committees
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Education Secretary and local authorities threatened with legal challenge over approach to vulnerable children and school attendance
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Education Secretary appoints Gilbert as next chair of Ofsted
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Education Secretary confirms Schools Bill to be ditched
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Education Secretary urges councils to take in unaccompanied asylum-seeking children following High Court ruling
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Education Workforce Council in Wales names law firm as legal adviser to fitness to practise committees
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Educational business names law firm to legal advisory contract
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Edwards becomes Chief Legal Officer and MO at Norfolk
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Edwards named Director of Law and Governance at West Midlands Combined Authority
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EHRC adds “clarification” to interim guidance on practical implications of Supreme Court judgment on definition of sex in Equality Act
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EHRC defends approach to updating code of practice in light of Supreme Court ruling on interpretation of Equality Act
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EHRC submits updated code of practice for services, public functions and associations to Minister for Women and Equalities
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Eight councils have used Care Act ‘easements’ so far, says Department of Health & Social Care
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Eight firms appointed to £26.3m legal services framework for Scottish councils
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Eight hundred schools to benefit from new Attendance and Behaviour Hubs in Government “crackdown”
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