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:

In this edition, we look at the issues involved where a child’s educational record notes a risk of parental abuse and the child’s parent wants to see the record. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs

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In the week that Roy Hodgson announced the squad that will be travelling to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, we thought we would get into the spirit of things by selecting a team of public procurement cases that we think would have a chance of taking on the world (or at least would do better than limping out in the second round on penalties to [Germany/Italy/Portugal]* [delete as appropriate]).

So, who made the cut?

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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:

In this edition, we look at the issues raised by parents attempting to access personal data about each other by requesting their child’s school records. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs

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REUTERS | Alex Domanski

After taking a rest in March, due to a lack of published decisions, our public procurement case digest is back.

In this month’s digest:

  • The General Court considers the obligation to provide debrief information, and the ability to reject a tender which does not comply with the contracting authority’s submission formalities.
  • The Advocate General issues two opinions in relation to whether a national court is precluded from declaring a contract ineffective if a voluntary ex-ante transparency notice is used, and whether a national law reserving certain contracts to non-profit making organisations was lawful.

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.

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REUTERS | Fabrizio Bensch

This is the sixth 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 since January 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 legal developments covered or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of local government practitioners.

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