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In this year’s State of Care report, CQC highlights its concerns about specific service areas, in particular ongoing problems with the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards process...

In this year’s State of Care report, CQC highlights its concerns about specific service areas, in particular those that care for people with a learning disability and autistic people...

An Employment Tribunal has ruled that a Claimant was not disabled under the Equality Act when she caught COVID two and a half weeks before her dismissal...

Britain’s equalities watchdog, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), has published new guidance regarding the prevention of hair discrimination in schools...

The health and care regulator has fined an NHS trust for failures around consent...

First sections of the Charities Act 2022 now in force

The Care Quality Commission finds a health and care system “unable to operate effectively”– with patient flow challenges seen in acute hospital wards, emergency departments and ambulance waits...

Food and Agri Update Friday 28 October - New PM and Cabinet, what does it mean for the food and agri sector? The avian flu support package is launched and a review of ASA adjudications this week, the need to make marketing clear. Finally, looking at food safety and food fraud in the supply chain. A video blog of this is available on LinkedIn via Jessica Burt or the Mills & Reeve Food & Agri Page.

Two Bills which will enhance family-related employment rights are currently progressing through the Commons...

The failures of governance around the provision of healthcare have been much in the news after scandals such as Ian Paterson...

Supporting General Practice with their legal and accounting needs..

Recently I was joined by Kathleen Porter and Kate Dion from one of Mills & Reeve's best friend firms in the US, Robinson & Cole, to discuss the higher education market in the US