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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.

Local authority legal teams after Mazur
Local authority legal teams will need to review
their practices and work allocation in the wake
of Mazur, but there is no need for
panic writes Timothy Leader.

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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Track allocation in housing disrepair claims
Withdrawing applications for care orders
Appropriate professional boundaries for teachers
Children under 16 and deprivation of liberty
A Welsh white leopard?
Conversion to an ‘empty’ MAT
Obvious risks: the beautiful game
Development, flood risk and planning judgment
Timed out?
To lot or not to lot?
New electrical safety regulations for social housing
Restrictive interventions and seclusion in schools
The Mayor of London's strategic planning role
Bus franchising: what next
Infrastructure consenting in Wales
Grey belt tests tested
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Preparing for June 2026: A guide to local authority data protection complaint processes
Contempt, disclosure failures, and information governance
Judging the use of AI
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A different kind of target
FOI is a collateral attack on enforcement
FOI and communication
AI solutions: the contractual issues
Generative AI and data protection
AI in the UK public sector
Information governance and AI
AI in Local Government
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Another bite at the cherry? New application issued in the CAT challenges subsidies proposed by Durham County Council
Releasing stalled housing sites
Threshold findings and final orders at Issues Resolution Hearings
Subsidies for regional airports
The Procurement Review Unit is now live
Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Family Courts
The Warm Homes Plan: Key Takeaways
Building safety reform in Wales
Issue estoppel in service charge disputes
Awaab’s Law and development agreements
Housing case alert - January 2026
Cross-border placements of children
The planning permission for the new Chinese Embassy
Transparency and the scope of PD12R FPR 2010
G-Cloud 14 to G-Cloud 15 – What is changing?
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John Lewis to pursue appeal over council refusal of 428-home scheme
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Joint Committee on Human Rights call for key proposals in Judicial Review and Courts Bill to be ditched
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Journalists win appeal over naming of judges who decided historic care proceedings relating to Sara Sharif
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Judge accuses council of “fundamental misunderstanding” of statutory obligations for adoption support
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Judge allows appeal against decisions of city council over whether accommodation was unsuitable
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Judge allows appeal over refusal of inspector to allow former quarry to be filled with inert waste before it is built over
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Judge allows challenge over screening but refuses to quash permission for school
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Judge allows employee of unsuccessful bidder to be part of confidentiality ring in legal challenge over award of e-bike concession contract
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Judge allows employment tribunal appeal in case where nurse was fired for not working weekends
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Judge allows inter-country adoption to proceed despite failure to comply with pre-adoption requirements
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Judge allows local authority to withdraw care proceedings, says Human Rights Act claim made by parents must fall away
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Judge allows local plan challenge to proceed but on reduced grounds
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Judge allows reporting of case where DNA tests established that three abandoned babies were full siblings
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Judge allows urgent application by council for judicial review after it published incorrect versions of neighbourhood plans ahead of referendum
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Judge approves order to keep boy in residential accommodation at likely cost of £750k
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Judge approves placement in Scotland for 15-year-old from London, expresses concern at lack of availability in England and Wales
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Judge authorises deprivation of liberty of woman with anorexia at new placement but only while she resides there willingly
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Judge awards damages and costs after changes to council tax reduction scheme discriminated against self-employed blind man
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Judge backs continuation of ‘final’ injunction over protests at oil terminal after first annual review
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Judge backs council over vaccinations of child in care, rejecting application by father for injunction
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