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Local Government weekly highlights—20 June 2019

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Published on: 20 June 2019
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Table of contents

  • Social Housing
  • Regulating revenge evictions—what can we do now?
  • Homelessness charity calls for ‘inhumane’ Vagrancy Act 1824 to be repealed
  • Views sought on changes to Manchester’s social housing rules to benefit those with greatest need
  • Children’s social care
  • President of the Family Division issues guidance on the forms of orders in children cases
  • Injunction terms not breached despite threatening behaviour—Wandsworth LBC v Lennard
  • Education
  • Forced academisation of schools—is resistance futile?
  • Home Office issues guidance for accredited institutions for non-visa national students

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Article summary

This week’s edition of Local Government highlights includes commentary on revenge evictions and calls for the repeal of the Vagrancy Act, details of new guidance issued in childcare proceedings, analysis of the Court of Appeals decision on capacity in B v a local authority, analysis of the NNDR valuation decision in Jackson (VO) v Canary Wharf.It also includes updates on the Heathrow expansion consultation, and details of a Sussex NHS trust fund being fined by the care quality commission, together with education, highways, planning and governance updates.

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