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Academies staff challenges for university and college sponsors

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 11 2013

The primary aim for the creation of any academy is to drive school improvement. This will include ensuring that school managers, teachers and support

Copyright and collaboration

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • December 13 2012

Like many large organisations, education institutions often enter into a variety of collaborative agreements

Does the duty of care to employees extend to employees of other bodies with which you have a working relationship?

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 7 2012

In the recent case of Claire Selwood v Durham County Council (1);Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (2) and Northumberland, Tyne & Wear NHS Foundation Trust (3) (2012) the Court of Appeal was asked to consider whether two mental health trusts owed a duty of care to an employee of the local authority who was attacked by a mental health patient

Ban on age discrimination in provision of services to come into effect

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • July 2 2012

The Equality Act 2010 prohibits discrimination in employment, education, service provision and certain other areas of activity

Court of Appeal says Human Rights Act not engaged at internal disciplinary hearings

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 15 2012

An employer does not need to comply with the procedural requirements of Article 6 of the Human Rights Convention when dismissing a member of staff, according to the Court of Appeal in last month’s decision involving the dismissal of an NHS doctor

The Public Sector Equality Duty

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 25 2012

The Public Sector Equality Duty, or "PSED" as we have come to know and love it, was first brought to life twelve months ago, when section 149 of the Equality Act 2010 came into force, and then more fully fledged by the enactment of secondary legislation last autumn

Act will reduce regulation for those working with children and vulnerable adults

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 15 2012

As observed below, the Protection of Freedoms Bill has passed into law

XVW & YZA v Gravesend Grammar School for Girls

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 25 2012

Neither a school nor a specialist expedition company were vicariously liable for the acts of a man who raped three girls on a school expedition in Belize, while they were working and staying on his farm

First anniversary for NHS publication of objectives to secure compliance with the public sector equality duty

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 12 2012

With the public sector equality duty - brought into life by section 149 Equality Act 2010 reaching its first anniversary this Easter, public sector organisations should have complied with their publication duties in relation to equality objectives, as set out in secondary legislation, by 6 April 2012

Fixed-term employment contracts - non-renewal may not trigger collective consultation requirements

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • February 24 2012

Following a similar case involving Lancaster University in 2010, it had been widely assumed in the Higher Education sector that the failure to renew a fixed-term contract of more than three months’ duration would trigger the requirement to consult collectively over redundancies, provided the conditions with regard to the timing, place and number of such dismissals were met