Who controls the data after LGR?
By Kate Edwards, associate, Birketts Local government reorganisation (LGR) raises urgent data-protection questions. It may not be clear who will be legally responsible for residents’ personal information, how to handle Subject Access Requests, what to put in new...
Birketts: Bitesize LGR webinars for DCN members
Welcome to this series of bite-sized webinars on local government reorganisation from Birketts. In them, Claire Jones, Legal Director in the Public Sector Team at Birketts, will interview a series of partners and senior lawyers across the firm. She’ll ask how...
Employment aspects of LGR
The Government’s programme of local government reorganisation (LGR) is underway, with a decision already made for Surrey to move to a two-unitary authority model. Many of the queries received from our clients so far relate to employment law matters and we have...