Procuring social value
Cliff Mills defines and talks about the importance of social value in his blog, and its potential within Greater Manchester.
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Ill-health early retirement – Council’s inactivity found to be “tantamount to maladministration”
A local authority recently received a “roasting” by the Pensions Ombudsman for their delay in processing an employee’s ill-health retirement pension, following her diagnosis with advanced cancer.
The Times’ Christmas Appeal 2019
The Times is looking for three or four charities to feature in their editions running in December 2019 and early January 2020.
Partnership potential
Joint ventures present an opportunity for housing associations to build organisational capacity, the revenues from which could help deliver on wider social housing commitments.
A victory for landlords in Section 20C orders
Residents are now unable to make applications to prohibit landlords from seeking to recover the cost of legal proceedings through the service charge on behalf of other residents, without consent.
Natalie Barbosa: Traversing the fundraising landscape
Natalie Barbosa summarises some of the legal challenges facing fundraisers in the charity sector.
“Holiday, celebrate”…but not if you employ term-time-only employees or use zero-hours contracts
The decision of the Court of Appeal in The Harpur Trust v Brazel & Unison has made clear that employers can no longer legally calculate part-time holiday based on 12.07% of hours worked over a year.
Landlords, possession proceedings and the Equality Act
Social landlords are seeing a rising number of Equality Act defences to possession proceedings. A recent Court of Appeal decision helps shift the likelihood of such defences succeeding.
Insourcing for local authorities
For decades now, fewer and fewer services provided by local authorities have been delivered directly by them. However, over the last couple of years, there are signs that this tide is changing.
‘Building a safer future’ consultation response
On 31 July, the consultation period ended on MHCLG’s proposals for reforming the building safety regulatory system set out in the ‘Building a Safer Future’ document. We have submitted our response.
Modern slavery – looking out for shackles in the supply chain
The Government commissioned an independent review of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in July 2018. The outcome was published in May 2019 which highlighted areas for improvement.
Charity Tax Commission report: reforming charity taxation
In 2017, the NCVO commissioned a review of the tax reliefs available to charities. The brainchild of this review was published on 17 July 2019 in the form of the Charity Tax Commission report.