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Daily news and case law updates across five areas of social welfare law: welfare benefits, debt, housing, employment and community care. Subscribe for updates.

21 June, 2022

Poor conditions prevail in property guardianship despite efforts to professionalise the sector

More Housing news

21 June, 2022

Scottish Government publishes Bill to transfer social care responsibility from local authorities to new National Care Service

More Community care news

21 June, 2022

Number of council tax reduction recipients in Scotland down by seven per cent in March 2022 compared to previous year

More Welfare rights news

20 June, 2022

Government makes plans for ‘suitable, appropriate’ legislation to replace provision that will be lost by the repeal of the Vagrancy Act

More Housing news

20 June, 2022

Buy Now Pay Later sector to be required to carry out affordability checks on new borrowers

More Debt news

17 June, 2022

Government says that it knows most claimants will not be in a position to take advantage of its new ‘benefits to bricks’ policy

More Welfare rights news

17 June, 2022

Government sets out ‘ambitious package of reforms’ to improve efficiency of housing cases in County Courts and the First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber)

More Housing news

17 June, 2022

Contract awarded to Atos to deliver national IT services supporting PIP assessment providers as part of DWP’s new Functional Assessment Service

More Welfare rights news

17 June, 2022

High Court of Northern Ireland rules that a Health Trust was not in breach of its statutory duties to provide social care when it failed to deliver an agreed care package due to staff shortages

More Community care case law

17 June, 2022

Payments to local authorities for the Verify Earnings and Pension Alerts service 2022/2023

More Welfare rights news

16 June, 2022

Government publishes White Paper on reform of private rented sector that includes abolition of ‘no fault’ evictions

More Housing news

16 June, 2022

European Court of Human Rights rejects complaint against housing association that reserved its housing for the Orthodox Jewish community

More Housing case law

16 June, 2022

High Court rules that a tenant was not liable to pay his sub-tenant damages for failing to prevent her unlawful eviction by the head landlord

More Housing case law

16 June, 2022

Employment and Trade Union Rights (Dismissal and Re-engagement) Bill receives its first reading

More Employment news

16 June, 2022

Work and Pensions Committee expresses concern that DWP’s ‘lack of transparency’ is undermining public trust

More Welfare rights news

16 June, 2022

Department of Health and Social Care publishes response to consultation on supporting local authorities to prepare for implementing the cap on social care costs ahead of its October 2023 rollout

More Community care news

16 June, 2022

Government commits to reform of ‘highly prescriptive and increasingly cumbersome and inflexible’ Consumer Credit Act

More Debt news