Legal

By Heather Jameson | 11 October 2023

The National Transfer Scheme for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children is clearly overwhlemed and...

WHITEHALL

Home Office under fresh asylum pressure

By Martin Ford | 10 October 2023

The Home Office came under fresh pressure this week to overhaul the mandatory National Transfer S...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Employers downplay equal pay risk

By Mark Conrad | 09 October 2023

Smith Square is monitoring equal pay claims across the sector but remains confident the national ...

Red tape risk to levelling up

By Martin Ford | 06 October 2023

New rules around subsidies risk holding back levelling up efforts, according to analysis publishe...

LEGAL

Safeguarding review after 10-year-old's death

By Dan Peters | 05 October 2023

An independent safeguarding review is to begin following the death of 10-year-old Sara Sharif.

FINANCE

Council to limit non-essential spending amid s114 threat

By Dan Peters | 28 September 2023

Windsor & Maidenhead BC is to limit all non-essential spending as it raised the risk of a section...

FINANCE

Five steps to avoiding s114

By Tiffany Cloynes | 18 September 2023

Tiffany Cloynes looks at the current landscape in relation to section 114 notices and sets out fi...

WHITEHALL

Cash injection for Kent as councils drag feet on National Transfer Scheme

By Mark Conrad | 18 September 2023

The Government has given Kent CC £10m for unaccompanied asylum-seeking children (UASC) amid conce...

HUMAN RESOURCES

EXCLUSIVE: 'Local government could face its own Ruth Perry case'

By Ann McGauran | 13 September 2023

Local government could face a tragedy similar to the case of the headteacher who took her own lif...

FINANCE

Brum braced for Government intervention

By Mark Conrad | 12 September 2023

Birmingham City Council is braced for a wide-ranging Government intervention to help rescue the a...

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