Tower Hamlets Change Up Consortium News
Funding, Contracts and Cuts
legal update website for voluntary organisations
Dealing with cuts and their impact: a list of new resources including cuts websites, a policy briefing on the Coalition and the third sector, and a briefing on how to use the Compact, public law and equality law to challenge cuts.
www.sandy-a.co.uk/managing.htm#challengingcuts
New commissioning and procurement guidance from the National Audit Office and Department of Health.
www.sandy-a.co.uk/managing.htm#publicservicesdelivery
New remedies when challenging how public sector contracts are awarded.
www.sandy-a.co.uk/managing.htm#remediesdirective
BIS beginner’s guide to state aid – could be important for any organisation that gets subsidies, preferential loans or asset transfers below market value from public sector bodies.
www.sandy-a.co.uk/managing.htm#stateaid
or go direct to http://tinyurl.com/2wm3vhn
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Sandy Adirondack
[Governance and legal training and consultancy for the voluntary sector]
39 Gabriel House, 10 Odessa Street, London SE16 7HQ
tel 020 7232 0726, fax 020 7237 8117
Items on the website are cross-referenced to the relevant section in The Russell-Cooke Voluntary Sector Legal Handbook by James Sinclair Taylor and the charity team at Russell-Cooke Solicitors, edited by Sandy Adirondack (Directory of Social Change, September 2009). It can be ordered by post, fax or email from the address below, or by printing out the order form on my website. It costs £60 for voluntary organisations, £90 for public & private sectors, + 10% p&p.
Information that previously appeared on the legal update website is archived at www.sandy-a.co.uk/vslh.htm.