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This latest episode of our NHS Estates Series focuses on risk management and health and safety in property estates.

Join us as we explore key issues including compliance and knowing how to respond to an incident, the impact of RAAC and managing the risk of fire.

In this latest episode of our NHS Estates Series, we’re diving into Part 4 of Estatecode, focusing on the disposal of freehold land and buildings. This section outlines the processes and guidelines for disposing of NHS-owned property, ensuring compliance with public sector rules, financial accountability, and transparency. Join us as we draw on our own experience and explore key principles, legal implications and best practices, shedding light on how NHS bodies can navigate this essential aspect of property management effectively.

This episode provides an overview of this guidance for NHS estates and finance managers and directors. Join us and listen to the conversations between our real estate health experts who work for NHS Trusts across the country and hear their reflections on the key themes which are crucial to have in mind when managing the NHS Estate.

In this second episode of our new Data, Privacy and Cyber Digest podcast series, DACB partner Chris Air is joined by Giles Inkson, Director of Services at NetSPI, and Sam Cheshire, Head of Cyber (UK Retail) at Gallagher, to discuss essential measures to implement in the final days leading up to the DORA deadline of 17 January 2025.

Together they consider what challenges have consistently arisen during preparations for in-scope companies, what wider impact DORA could, as an EU regulation, have on the UK, and if there are any aspects of DORA’s enforcement that could be considered controversial.

Click here to read the Office for National Statistics dataset for 'UK trade in services: service type by partner country, non-seasonally adjusted'

Click here to download the House of Commons Library research briefing on 'Statistics on UK trade with the EU'

Click here to read the International Monetary Fund on The Last Mile: Financial Vulnerabilities and Risks

Click here to find out more about DORA

This is the fourth and final episode of a series of four podcasts about the Employment Rights Bill. In this episode, Partners Louise Bloomfield and Tim Gooder, and Knowledge Lawyer Joanne Bell, discuss the planned restriction of "fire and rehire" practices, as well as the proposals targeted at ending what the Government refers to as "one sided flexibility". These include requiring employers to offer a contract for a guaranteed number of hours to zero and low hours workers, and to provide reasonable notice of any cancellation of or changes to scheduled shifts.

In this inaugural episode of our new Data, Privacy and Cyber Digest podcast series, Pete Given and Chris Air (partners in DACB's Data, Privacy and Cyber team) discuss the EDPB's recent Opinion 22/2024 on obligations following from reliance on processors and sub-processors.

Together they consider what the EDPB opinion covers, what the standout points are from the opinion, and what this means for controllers.

This is the third episode in a series of four podcasts about the Employment Rights Bill. In this episode, Partners Nick Chronias and Philip Harman, and Knowledge Lawyer Sara Meyer, discuss the Government's plans for trade union and industrial relations reform. These include the proposed repeal of many of the restrictions on industrial action that were introduced in 2016, as well as strengthened union rights of access to workplaces, simplification of the trade union recognition process and increased protections from detriment and dismissal for workers who participate in protected industrial action.

This episode of Lawcast discusses practical considerations for NHS Bodies when negotiating leases, both as landlord and as tenant, including an overview of key NHS specific provisions.

This is the second episode in our series of four podcasts about the Employment Rights Bill.

In this episode, Partners Sarah George and Anjali Sharma, and Legal Director and Knowledge Lawyer Joanne Bell, discuss the Bill's family-friendly, equality and harassment related proposals (including changes to flexible working, day one rights to paternity and parental leave and bereavement leave, protection from dismissal for maternity returners, the requirement for large employers to publish gender pay gap action plans and menopause support plans, and strengthening protections against harassment at work).

This is the first episode in a series of four podcasts about the Employment Rights Bill.

In this episode, Partners David Speakman and Stuart Craig, and Knowledge Lawyer Sara Meyer, discuss the proposals to make protection from unfair dismissal a day one right, change the trigger point for collective redundancy consultation, strengthen rights to statutory sick pay and create a new single enforcement body for employment rights.