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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
Déjà Vu – the implications of Zenobē Energy’s latest case for local government
The ERA – Benefits and Working Conditions
£150m Clean Maritime Grant Competition Opens – Critical Subsidy Control Steps for Applicants
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
The powers of exclusion panels
Removal from kinship care
When school discipline meets disability
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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!
More Features
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
The convergence of DRS, Simpler Recycling and EPR
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Ombudsman raps council for severe maladministration over lengthy delays on window repairs
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Ombudsman raps council for taking 21 months to reassess care needs of vulnerable woman
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Ombudsman raps council for using incorrect information to place child on protection plan
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Ombudsman raps council over cuts to support given to man with special needs
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Ombudsman raps council over failure to complete agreed remedy
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Ombudsman raps council over handling of request for council tax relief during pandemic
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Ombudsman raps council which failed to help care users maintain their homes
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Ombudsman raps landlord over Equality Act failures, issuing of invalid section 21 notice
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Ombudsman recommends changes councils can make on housing allocations to improve services for disabled people
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Ombudsman recommends compensation in council tax dispute
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Ombudsman recommends council review triaging procedures for Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards requests
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Ombudsman recommends county council pay nearly £7k after boy left without education for two years
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Ombudsman recommends new Housing Regulator for Wales after finding “systemic maladministration” by councils
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Ombudsman recommends school should offer fresh appeal to child denied sixth form place after finding “significant faults” in the process
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Ombudsman rejects complaint in case where complainant alleged she had lost £150k+ due to handling of planning applications
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Ombudsman rejects father’s claim that council failed to consider his concerns that child was victim of Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) by Proxy
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Ombudsman reminds councils about good complaint handling after investigations find “significant issues”
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Ombudsman reminds councils not to make “blanket decisions” on post-16 school transport applications following complaints against city council
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Ombudsman reminds councils of duty to provide alternative education
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Ombudsman reminds councils of their foster carer school transport duties
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