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The Cabinet Office recently published a second Procurement Policy Note (PPN) which applies to all contracting authorities...

Charities with employees may need to know about the latest Home Office guidance on the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on immigration requirements...

Many charities of all sizes are finding themselves under immense financial pressure as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic...

The Charity Commission’s Coronavirus guidance for charities has been further updated to include the Commission’s consideration of the extent to which the charity sector can undertake activities aiming to help with the effects of the virus...

The Charity Commission has now published its Coronavirus guidance for charities, addressing particular queries it has been frequently receiving since the onset of the pandemic...

A number of changes are coming in on 6 April 2020, which have been in the pipeline for some time...

The Government has released a Policy Statement containing details about the new points-based immigration system which will come into force on 1 January 2021...

The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) has not yet become established in the UK population, and the Government is concentrating its efforts on preventing, or at least delaying, an epidemic...

The Commission has recently published a blog post setting out that it has decided to try to understand what is holding charities back from making responsible investments in line with their purposes, and to give more charities confidence to make such investments...

Following consultation last year on transposing the Fifth Money Laundering Directive (“5MLD”) into national law, HMRC and HM Treasury have recently published their technical consultation document for 5MLD and the Trust Registration Service...

On 28 January the Court of Appeal has, in the case of The Civil Aviation Authority v R (on the application of Jet2.com Limited) [2020] EWCA Civ 35, clarified a previously unclear point of law regarding legal advice privilege (Hickinbottom LJ accepted “that the jurisprudence is far from straightforward”)...

Last week saw the launch by the Government of a free online resource for charities – a safeguarding portal created to help charities handle safeguarding concerns or allegations...