The Local Government Association (LGA) has called on the Government to make sector-led improvement support an alternative to appointing commissioners to councils at risk of failing to meet the Best ...

CPH’s remaining claim for damages under the Human Rights Act 1998 and Equality Act 2010 was transferred to the County Court. Redbridge has now agreed to a £20,000 settlement.

The Government has updated its statutory guidance on kinship care to reflect new requirements for local authorities, including a duty to consult on and publish a kinship local offer.

The claimant wished to build 33 homes at Oddfellows Street, in Cleckheaton, but the inspector's conclusion had been that there was no prospect within a reasonable period of ensuring that an access ...

In Born into Care: 1 in every 118 infants in England at risk of care proceedings in 2024/25, they said the rate at which infants are involved in care proceedings was substantially higher than in ...

The Scottish Government, councils and NHS Boards are failing to meet their "most basic obligations" regarding food, health and housing in the South of Scotland, a human rights watchdog has warned.

Kensington and Chelsea Council has been told it must improve its IT systems and cyber security training after a cyber attack last year disrupted several services and led to data theft. The cyber ...

The Supreme Court is this week (7-8 October) hearing an appeal over whether a threshold of seriousness of harm applies to claims for damages following a data breach.

In September 2025 the High Court (Mr Justice Bourne) rejected two joined claims for judicial review concerning the question of whether a faith-based oversubscription criterion within the admission ...

The Supreme Court has granted ministers and HS2 Limited permission to appeal a ruling that certain tunnelling works did not have planning permission. The court said the issue in the case was: ...

The Law Society of England and Wales has called for clear accountability for agentic AI in justice, amid concerns that “AI is moving faster than the rules needed to govern it”. In a report, The Future ...

The Court of Protection has concluded that a 16-year-old boy is not being deprived of his liberty in the latest ruling in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the AGNI case earlier this year ...