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Newsflash: Provider Selection Regime: supplementary consultation on the detail of proposals for regulations
Andrew Daly comments on the DHSC launched a supplementary consultation on the detail of proposals for Provider Selection Regime regulations published on 21 February 2022.
What now: Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment
Yesterday evening, Sajid Javid announced a reversal of government policy to implement mandatory vaccinations throughout much of the health and social care sectors.
Update on Implementation of the Liberty Protection Safeguards
A letter dated 16 December 2021 from Helen Tabiner, Deputy Director, Service Quality, DHSC addressed to the LPS National Steering Group Members acknowledges that the aim of implementing LPS by April 2022 cannot be met.
Podcast: Collaborations – Planning to work differently – strategies for collaborations by charities and social...
Following a recent masterclass for Social Club on 'Collaborations - Planning to work differently', Ian Hempseed, partner with Hempsons and Craig Dearden-Phillips, founder of Social Club and a social entrepreneur, produced this podcast discussing key strategies to plan for charity and social enterprise collaborations.
Inquest podcast: Prison inquests
Season two, episode four: Prison inquests
New Hempsons Southampton office
Announcing the opening of our fifth UK office.
Sexual Harassment in the Workplace consultation: the government’s response
The government has released its response to the consultation on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace, promising to further protections to employees who are victims of sexual harassment, whilst giving employers support to put measures in place to respond to the needs of their organisation, and provide explicit protections from third-party harassment.
Implications for employers of lifting Covid-19 restrictions
The government has published its COVID-19 Response: Summer 2021 (Roadmap) setting out the details of step 4 of the roadmap out of restrictions for England. The restriction are scheduled to be lifted on 19 July 2021. Hempsons' employment law team discuss the guidance.
The Charities Bill: What difference does it make to our charity?
The Law Commission has made a series of recommendations for legislative change to the Charities Act 2011 following extensive consultation.
Hempsons / SEUK podcast ‘In discussion with The Skill Mill’
Social Enterprise UK's Andy Daly talks to Skill Mill Managing Director David Parks and Hempsons partner Crispin Pettifer about The Skill Mill's exciting project to extend the programme they deliver to more vulnerable young people to help them break the cycle of re-offending and gain work experience.
New PPN published; Requirements for contracts covered by the WTO Government Procurement Agreement & the UK-EU Trade &...
The second Procurement Policy Note of 2021 was published at the end of last week.
Newsflash: Brexit, data transfers and local representatives
With the UK’s exit from the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area, both UK and EU data controllers are now having to grapple with cross-border data requirements where previously there were none. Chris Alderson discusses the issues
Newsflash: New PPN published; Procuring in an emergency
The Government has issued the first Procurement Policy Note of 2021, applicable to all contracting authorities.
New Year partner and associate promotions
We are delighted to announce a new partner and several associate promotions, providing a major boost to our healthcare advisory, healthcare litigation, commercial and real estate teams.