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REUTERS | Mike Blake
18/07/2014
In brief for week ending 16 July 2014
18/07/2014
Changes of pupil name: schools hotline FAQs
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 looks at schools’ obligations where a pupil’s name has been changed by deed poll. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.
REUTERS | Andrew Winning
16/07/2014
Transposing the Directive: What needs clarifying in the Public Contracts Regulations 2014
The government has indicated its intention to transpose Directive 2014/24/EU into UK law by the end of the year through enacting the Public Contracts Regulations 2014. They will use a copy-out approach to the transposition, reflecting the Directive more or less word for word. The aim of this approach is to avoid gold-plating and so retain the flexibility that has been a key driver for reform of the procurement rules.
However, in some areas the Directive is ambiguous. Clarity is required to avoid undue caution. After all, innovation thrives when the rules are clear. No one wants to be a test case.
Practical Law has therefore devised the following, non-exhaustive, list of key areas that we think the Cabinet Office should focus on clarifying.
Practical Law Public Sector wishes to thank David Gollancz of Keating Chambers for his helpful comments on this post.
REUTERS | Mike Blake
10/07/2014
In brief for week ending 9 July 2014
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REUTERS | Eric Thayer
09/07/2014
Public procurement case digest (June 2014)
June was a relatively quiet month for public procurement case law. Top of the bill was the ECJ considering (and rejecting) an attempt to extend the Teckal in-house exception to cover joint ventures between public authorities and charities.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases covered or think that we have missed a case that should be brought to the attention of public procurement practitioners.
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 looks at schools’ obligations towards pupils with disabilities. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.
REUTERS | Andrew Winning
03/07/2014
In brief for week ending 2 July 2014
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On 25 June 2014, the National Audit Office (NAO) published its report, Local Government Funding: Assurance to Parliament, which examines how the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) has implemented and oversees the assurance framework that enables government departments to assure Parliament on funding for local authorities.
The report, which is divided into three parts:
- Examines how other government departments funded local authorities in 2013-14, how that funding has changed since 2010-11 and how the DCLG made the changes (part 1).
- Considers whether other government departments’ monitoring of local authorities gives them enough assurance on whether local authority grants are used in line with Parliament’s intentions and sufficient information on the impact of the grants on policy objectives (part 2).
- Evaluates whether the DCLG ensures the local accountability system is effective for providing assurance on value for money and considers emerging issues and risks (part 3). Continue reading
REUTERS | Brian Snyder
26/06/2014
In brief for week ending 25 June 2014
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REUTERS | Ronen Zvulun
Our quarterly freedom of information law update blogs focus on the latest developments in freedom of information law under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (SI 2004/3391) (EIR). The blog will enable readers advising on freedom of information law to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments on the topic. This post looks at freedom of information law developments from April to June 2014.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases, issues or developments that are covered, or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of freedom of information practitioners.