Work area: Local Government & General

What we offer

• Top class expertise in Procurement, Social Care, Leisure, Training and more
  
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• Strategies to Reduce Risk and Achieve Safe Consultation Processes: practical support taking into account any specific legislative requirements for your service, the Human Rights Act, Equality Act, Public Services (Social Value) Act and recent court challenges to achieve successful project delivery and avoid risk. Our advice is always authoritative and technically correct.
  
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• Achieving Innovation: practical and legally sound advice and support on achievable innovation including a realistic risk analysis.
  
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• Powers and Duties: sound understanding of local government functions, powers and duties, statutory and other flexibilities and their effect on project delivery is an implicit aspect of all we do.
  
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• Governance and Decision Making Processes: an in-depth understanding of local government decision making processes and governance, the impact of recent case law on consultation, avoiding challenges and supporting good practice to deliver a Wednesbury reasonable and proper process.


• Localism Act and other Recent Legislation: consideration of the impact of recent and new legislation on projects, including the general power of competence, community right to buy and/or challenge, Public Services (Social Value) Act and many more.


• Help Line: assistance with difficult and/or confidential problems at the end of a telephone or via email.

Snapshot of our track record

• See our track record in Procurement, Social Care and Social Enterprise, Leisure, Training and more:
  
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• Support on Consultation: we have provided confidential and successful advice to a number of authorities on whether a formal consultation is required and if so how to achieve this effectively taking into account all relevant legislation and case law.


• Confidential Track Record: we have a long established and extensive track record of advising monitoring and other senior officers on internal issues, the legality of proposed decisions, avoiding challenge by sound decision making processes and 'Wednesbury reasonable' report writing to mitigate the risks of challenge, this is inevitably confidential.

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