2 December 2020 Blog Fire Safety - Relief for some flat owners The Government has announced that owners of flats in buildings without cladding will no longer need an EWS1 form to sell or re-mortgage their property following an agreement with the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, UK Finance and the Building Societies Association... Share this article Bookmark this page 1 min read
1 December 2020 Blog Key health and safety protections extend to workers The High Court has recently decided that, to comply with EU law, important provisions in the Employment Rights Act which protect employees from victimisation on certain health and safety grounds should also extend to workers... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
1 December 2020 Blog Update on the coronial landscape: Chief Coroner’s combined annual reports Judge Mark Lucraft QC’s combined sixth and seventh annual reports to the Lord Chancellor details the current state of the coroner service in 2018 to 2019 and 2019 to 2020... Share this article Bookmark this page 4 min read
1 December 2020 Blog Electronic communication of statutory forms under the Mental Health Act From 1 December 2020 many of the statutory forms under the Mental Health Act 1983 can be communicated electronically. This follows an amendment to Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship and Treatment) (England) Regulations 2008... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
1 December 2020 Blog Assessing the risks when staff work remotely from overseas The surge in remote working – whether to deliver on-line learning or other services – has been a vital part of the education sector’s response to the pandemic. Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
1 December 2020 Blog Farming is Changing – What will it mean for you? Defra has published information to help farmers and those in the farming industry understand changes to farming policy that will come into effect in England from 1 January 2021... Share this article Bookmark this page 12 min read
30 November 2020 Blog Rumours of the death of the office are greatly exaggerated Remember the office? The place we’d rush to in the morning, perhaps enduring a lengthy commute, then sit staring at a screen for 8 hours before an equally unpleasant commute home with hundreds of others all doing the same... Share this article Bookmark this page 4 min read
30 November 2020 Blog The new "Student visa system" - a reminder International students continue to be a highly valued component of the UK higher education system, and EU / EEA / Swiss nationals will form an important aspect of that student body with effect from 1 January 2021, when the EU transition period concludes... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
30 November 2020 Blog Covid rules and care home visiting policies Living through a pandemic is challenging enough, but living through a pandemic in a care home has been a truly brutal experience for both the residents and their families... Share this article Bookmark this page 3 min read
26 November 2020 Blog Department of Health and Social Care commits to action on eight 'priority' areas The Department has published its Bureaucracy busting document on 24 November. It was announced at the NHS Confederation’s NHS Reset Conference where Matt Hancock spoke about a new strategy to reduce excess bureaucracy... Share this article Bookmark this page 4 min read
26 November 2020 Blog NHS reorganisation update: ICS on statutory footing by April 2022 Integrated Care Systems are to be given a ‘legal form’ from spring 2022 if new legislation comes forward in the early part of 2021 according to comments made by Sir Simon Stevens at this week's NHS Reset Conference... Share this article Bookmark this page 2 min read
26 November 2020 Blog Update: public procurement in 2021 Given the many challenges raised by the Covid pandemic, the impact of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU on public procurement will not have been high on many people’s agenda... Share this article Bookmark this page 5 min read