Under pressure from budget cuts and the need to evidence that public funds actually deliver results, local authorities are looking into the possibility of using payment by results contracts.
The term payment by results (PbR) can encompass a large variety of arrangements for the delivery of public services. In the NHS it means tariff-based, unit pricing, but in the social care sector it means payments for social, economic or behavioural outcomes. Continue reading
PLC 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 what a school can do when a divorced father wishes to attend his son’s school’s parents’ evening. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.
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This is the third in our series of quarterly freedom of information law update blogs, which focuses 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. This post looks at freedom of information law developments from July to September 2013.
Please feel free to submit a comment below or contact us at feedback@practicallaw.com 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. Continue reading
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This is the third of our series of quarterly housing law update blogs. which will enable readers specialising in housing law to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments. The post looks at housing law developments from June 2013 to August 2013.
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Encouraged by the government’s approval of staff mutuals and spin-out companies, many local authorities have seized the initiative and supported groups of staff and members of their communities to take over the running of a former council service.
The Local Government Association has published some examples of these projects, as well as guidance, providing a brief snap shot of the range and complexity of issues local authority lawyers are advising on in this area.
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The Care Bill 2013-14 aims to reform the law relating to care and support services for adults and carers.
In Part one of her analysis of the Care Bill, Ros Ashcroft, Associate at DAC Beachcroft LLP, discussed the new duties in the Bill in the context of an increasingly difficult financial environment. In this second part, Ros considers the duties in the Care Bill and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 to deliver health and social care services in an integrated way and the barriers to achieving integration.