You might get to find out the details of your local “Procurement Plan” this week or perhaps next. Why does this type of thing always make me nervous about the underlying veracity of the numbers. I skimmed the Q & A document this afternoon and it has some interesting clarification as well as some less […]
Picked up sufficient interest in a CDS BVT Webinar to schedule an extra one next Thursday – details: Thursday 30th July 2009, 1pm CDS BVT – the Consultation Response The Commissions plans for Best Value Tendering of the CDS have now been published. Next week we are offering an additional session to provide an outline […]
For most there is a welcome slowing down in the implementation timetable for this ill considered nonsense. For Manchester and Avon no such luck. This suggests no national “roll out” of BVT until 2013 following the “pilot” evaluation. As I have said before it is difficult to see how this can be called a pilot […]
We were expecting the Civil “Procurement Plans” today but got the CDS BVT consultation response instead. Not sure when I will have a chance to read it – an “on-demand” webinar and a continuing PR appeal might slow me down tomorrow. I will however to post here when I can and I will either add […]
There has been quite a bit interest in the issue of Peer review and Quality Assurance in the letters page of the Gazette since the article we commented upon here. (I am immersed in a PR appeal at the moment and have the distraction of a “formal review” of a PR related termination this morning. […]
My younger lad bought the album this is from last week and it is pretty good. Not sure quite who it reminds me of, I know its a bit like the Cranberries but there is something else there.
Long day out in-house training yesterday so missed the chance to blog about this. As predicted there are to be changes to the Prison Law class of work which will include; A portfolio based supervisor standard – with the usual 350-hour casework requirement A move to standard fees – surprise, surprise A tighter Sufficient Benefit […]
The Young Legal Aid Lawyers group have drawn our attention to the launch, this afternoon, of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Legal Aid. Friend of this site Mr Rodney Warren will be giving evidence. I will not let my ever-present pessimism stop me from wishing it well – it is a necessary and valuable […]
We have had a very positive response to last weeks Civil Bid Round webinar. We have also been asked to re-run it for those who could not make it last Friday – if you are in this category please let us know so that we can plan a return date. On the same subject comes […]
This weeks Friday lunchtime course covers the Crown Court Litigators Fee. Not much more to say about it than that – I hope it does what it says on the tin. Here is a booking form.