Notes written for officers, monitoring officers and decision-makers dealing with regulatory, governance and transformation issues in practice. The focus is on clarity, proportionate analysis and matters that arise in real organisational settings.
Regulatory informationWe publish short commentary and practical notes on licensing, market regulation, procurement, governance and public-sector reform.
A practical view of where contracting authorities should concentrate effort now that the Procurement Act 2023 is bedding in: procedure rules, notice ownership, exclusions and the discipline of writing assessment summaries.
Read the article →Why historic street trading arrangements create more problems than they solve, the four failures that come up most often, and what a properly structured modernisation involves.
Read the article →Most licensing decisions that come apart do so on process rather than merits. Relevance, reasons, fairness at the hearing, and policy that is doing no work.
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