The High Court has recently given an interesting insight into the broader question of the scope of Welsh Minister’s powers when exercising their executive functions under the devolution settlement.
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09/03/2011
Defending school admissions appeals
Last week was national offer day when more than 500,000 children in their final year at primary school were told which secondary school they were going to in September. Once again, it appears from media reports that there is a shortfall in places and some children (1 in 7) will not get their first choice of school. Many of the parents of such pupils are probably planning to appeal and it appears likely that local authorities will be facing a substantial number of appeals for popular schools in their area that are oversubscribed. These appeals must be heard by 6 July 2011. Continue reading
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02/03/2011
Look before you tweet…
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With an excellent sense of timing, Eric Pickles has called on local authorities to embrace twitter and other social media in the week that the press has reported that a Hull Councillor has been heavily criticised by Mencap for posting an offensive comment on Twitter in relation to those protesting against a £65 million savings plan made by Hull City Council. In this post, we look at:
- Whether social media outlets, such as blogging and Twitter can be used to open up public council meetings and make local authority discussion more transparent.
- The dangers associated with councillors and local authorities making use of social media outlets, such as Twitter.
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23/02/2011
Teckal in the UK following the LAML decision
David Gollancz, 11KBW:
In this post, David looks back at the passage of the Brent v Risk Management Partners case through the courts and considers the implications of the recent Supreme Court judgment.
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16/02/2011
Public Reading Stages – the Pilot Project
Daniel Greenberg, PLC consultant:
The Coalition’s Programme for Government promised to introduce a new ‘public reading stage’ for bills to give the public an opportunity to comment on proposed legislation online.
A pilot project has now begun with the establishment of a website allowing the public to comment on the Protection of Freedoms Bill. The idea is that comments made on the website will be “collated at the end of this public consultation and fed through directly to the Parliamentarians who will carry the Bill through the House of Commons”.
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