Weekend School booking

Booking Conditions

  • Bookings must be made by the 10 February 2012.
  • Payment is due within 28 days of issue of an invoice and in all cases must be paid prior to the commencement of the Weekend School.
  • Cancellations prior to 10 February 2012 will attract an administration fee of £75. For cancellations after this date or non-attendance, the full fee applies.
  • All cancellations must be in writing and will be acknowledged in writing.
  • Substitutions are permitted.
  • There may be a number of day delegate places for Friday and Saturday this year. These will be allocated after the closing date for applications.
    I am interested in a day delegate place for Friday.
    I am interested in a day delegate place for Saturday.
  • For all queries regarding a delegate booking please contact Ann

Delegate Details


Please indicate your choice of topics for each of the parallel sessions

Friday 30th March 13.30 – 15.00

  • 4a Open Public Services - What Does It Really Mean?
  • 4b Latest Market Developments in Outsourcing
  • 4c Local Authority Property Essentials 2012
  • 4d Robust Decision Making and Judicial Review
  • 4e Governance - How Not to Get Into a Pickles

Friday 30th March 15.30 - 17.00

  • 5a Data Security
  • 5b Court of Protection - Recent Problems of Principle and Practice
  • 5c Licensing Update
  • 5d Outsourcing and How to Do it Right - the Employment Law Implications of Alternative Modes of Service Delivery
  • 5e The Localism Act and the Economy - Hot Topics in Planning & Regeneration

Saturday 31st March 09.15 - 10.45

  • 6a Career Clinic - How to Present Yourself in the Current Market
  • 6b Education Law Including Academies and Free Schools
  • 6c What's happening in Local Government Pensions?
  • 6d Collaboration, Partnership, Contracting and Making it Happen
  • 6e Health and Social Care: Tension or Integration?

Saturday 31st March 11.15 - 12.45

  • 7a Freedom of Information
  • 7b The Planning Act 2008 - National Infrastructure Planning and the Role of Local Authorities
  • 7c Power to the People - Making Renewable Energy Work for You
  • 7d Local Government Finance
  • 7e Presenting a Prosecution

Saturday 31st March 14.00 - 16.30

  • 8a Making Property Rationalisation Work - Lessons from Central Government and Elsewhere
  • 8b Neighbourhood Planning Workshop
  • 8c Anti Social Behaviour & Housing Update
  • 8d The (ACSeS) New Model Constitution for Local Authorities
  • 8e How Legal Knowledge Management Systems Can Help You Deliver More With Less
  • 8f Family - Rights of the Child

Please Note: 13 cpd hours if all sessions are attended