Feature Articles

When this series of articles began, shortly after the 2016 referendum, it contained a prediction that negotiating a trade agreement between the UK and EU could take 10 years.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) published guidance in 2019 to address questions about relationships and sexuality among people using adult social care services. Progress on awareness of the issue was hampered during the pandemic but now there are indications that, as inspections return, there will be a renewed focus on how registered care providers should consider people's relationship and sexuality needs. Christine Grey investigates.

New exporters Yvonne and Martin Sprake have found a customer in France! But all is not plain sailing, as they grapple with customs procedures, taxes and shipping. They decided to take a short trip to Brittany to meet their first export customer face to face and the journey proved to be an education.

New PPE Regulations extend employers’ duties to “workers”. Barrister Robert Spicer reports on a number of recent cases that demonstrate the difficulty of determining who is a worker.

It has recently been reported that the Education Secretary, Nadhim Zahawi, is considering plans to amend the Employment Relations Act 1999 to give teachers the statutory right to be accompanied to grievance and disciplinary hearings by an external lawyer or representative of a body other than a trade union.

Low-carbon hydrogen will play a crucial role in reducing carbon emissions and meeting net zero targets by the end of this decade, the Government claims. But producing hydrogen as a source of heat and power at scale comes with its own unique challenges, as John Barwise explains.

In this feature article Caroline Raine discusses the recent developments with regards to the requirement to notify hazardous mixtures to poison centres. Caroline reminds us of the legal obligations introduced by the new Annex VIII to EC Regulation 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP) and provides an update on the supporting information made available by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).