Ebriefings

We have had a year bookended by holiday accrual and pay announcements and provisions. Read our employment review of 2023.

The reported case of Van-Herpen v Green and Green heard on 4 December 2023 sees a further development in case law around gas safety certificates and section 21 notices.

As we draw 2023 to a close, the charity sector shows no sign of slowing down. With the Department for Culture, Media and Sport announcing that the next stage of […]

We summarise the key changes affecting how adult social care services and health services will be commissioned and procured.

Proceedings issued on or after 1 October 2023 for most civil claims of up to £100,000 will now be caught by the extended fixed recoverable costs regime.

The most high-profile story has been Birmingham City Council’s issuing of a section 114 notice over an equal pay liability estimated at £760 million but this is far from an […]

With the weather now feeling much more autumnal, our October newsletter is here to fill you in on some of the most important updates in the charity sector this month.

It has been a little while now since we responded to this Cabinet Office consultation. Read some of the points we made in our response to the consultation.

Almost three years on from the tragic death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale, and ten months after Coroner Joanne Kearsley’s Prevention of future deaths report, the department of levelling up, housing and communities (DLUHC) has published guidance on understanding and addressing the health risks of damp and mould in the home.

A few weeks back many of us had probably not even heard of Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC). However that has now changed as a result of the partial or complete closure of some 140 schools nationally, following safety concerns relating to RAAC.

Local governments award over generous severance payments at their peril as Northumberland Council have recently found out.

July was a month of research, with the Charity Commission (the Commission) publishing three(!) major pieces of analysis: its research on public trust in charities; its research on trustees’ opinions; […]