Just as providers were getting to grips with the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) new Single Assessment Framework (SAF), Dr Penny Dash's interim report into the effectiveness of the CQC was published.

With a year of strategic challenges and opportunities ahead, we thought it might provide interesting insight to summarise merger and acquisition activity from the 2023/24 Academic Year and the trends emerging for the year ahead.

In this guide we offer practical insights into using frameworks under the new Procurement Act (the Act) and highlight some of the important changes introduced by the Act.

In the UK the development of data centres has run into some recent planning blocks, despite the urgent need for new data centres driven by the growth in cloud computing, personal internet use and the expansion of digital data.

A key change in the new Procurement Act is the enhanced transparency regime. We provide you with guidance on how to navigate the extra notices you will have to set out under these changes.

We recently reported on the upcoming new mandatory duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace, which is due to come into force on 26 October 2024.