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Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:

This FAQ examines the law governing work experience for school-age pupils. For all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.

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This is the latest in our series of quarterly local government update blogs, which will enable readers to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments in local government from November 2014 to January 2015.

Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases, issues, or legal developments covered or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of local government practitioners.

In this post we look at:

  • Cases of interest to local authorities.
  • Various legislative and other developments of interest to local authority lawyers.

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December’s case digest includes an ECJ ruling on the compatibility with the EU rules of national law governing participation in procurement procedures, an Advocate General’s opinion on the interpretation of award criteria under Directive 2004/18, and the European Ombudsman rejecting a further complaint about the CJEU’s inclusion of an educational requirement in its tenders for translators.

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Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:

This FAQ examines whether a headteacher should give a witness statement in custody proceedings. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.

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