Local Government weekly highlights—20 June 2019

Published on: 20 June 2019

Published by: LexisPSL

Local Government weekly highlights—20 June 2019
In this issue:
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Homelessness charity calls for ‘inhumane’ Vagrancy Act 1824 to be repealed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

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Forced academisation of schools—is resistance futile?
Home Office issues guidance for accredited institutions for non-visa national students
Update of admissions code aims to improve support for disadvantaged children in schools
T-level roll-out confirmed as more further education providers commit to teaching courses from 2021
Ofsted chief inspector calls for outstanding schools to be routinely inspected
Healthcare
In best interest for Jehovah’s witness who lacked capacity to have surgery and blood products as beliefs not central to her identity, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust v DE (by her proposed litigation friend, the Official Solicitor)
Sussex NHS Trust fined £200,000 for failing to provide safe care
Director and manager plead guilty to failing to register with regulator
Public Procurement
Technology and Construction Court adds public procurement disputes protocol to guide
Adult social care
Assessing capacity to enter into sexual relations (B (by her litigation friend, the official receiver) v A local authority)
Environmental law
Heathrow expansion consultation ‘an opportunity for opponents’
Governance
Home Office allocates £35m to fund violence reduction units in 18 local areas
Business rates–the ‘reality principle’ and redevelopment (Jackson (VO) v Canary Wharf)
Planning
Court considers revised NPPF wording of presumption in favour of sustainable development (Wavendon Properties v SoS)
Judicial review
Challenge to Public spaces protection order did not have sufficient personal benefit to the claimant to fall within the requirements of the legal aid scheme (R (on the application of Liberty) v Director of Legal Aid Casework)
Highways
Blue Badge scheme to be extended to people with less visible disabilities
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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. Sign in or take a trial to read the full analysis.