Helena Ifeka

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Helena has a busy practice, mainly in employment law, personal injury and public law. She is a strong trial advocate who in the past year has appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (on her own) as well as the Central Arbitration Committee.

Helena worked as a Legal Officer for the Baptist Union for one year while completing her BPTC, where she advised on property and trust law, GDPR, and assisted in preparation for the IICSA enquiry into child protection in religious organisations.

Before retraining in law, for twelve years, Helena ran business transformation programmes and worked as an IT and management consultant at C-level for clients in the private and public sectors.

Practice Area

Employment

Panel

Q&A Panel

Qualified Year

2020

Experience

Baptist Union of Great Britain (Legal Officer) (2019 - 2020)
Network Rail (Business Transformation Programme Manager) (2009 - 2011)
Accenture (Senior Manager, Consultancy) (2000 - 2009)

Membership

ELA
ILS
PIBA

Qualifications

BPTC (Very Competent) – BPP
GDL (Distinction) – Oxford Brookes
MPhil – Columbia University, USA
MA – Columbia University, USA
BA Honours (1st Class, Medal) – University of Sydney, Australia

1 Contributions by Helena Ifeka

PRACTICE NOTES

Best Value Duty in English Local Government: Outsourcing, consultation, guidance (2015/2024), procurement interface, inspections, interventions and judicial review

What is the best value duty? The best value duty (BVD) obliges a local government organisation to show that it has arrangements to secure continuous improvement in the way it exercises its functions, in other words, how it delivers its work. In practice, this typically covers how the authority manages core responsibilities such as: balancing its budget providing statutory services, including adult social care and children’s services The BVD was created by the Local Government Act 1999 (LGA 1999). That Act remains the governing legislation, though it has been substantially amended, particularly by the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 (LGPIHA 2007). Much of the detail on what BVD is and how it should be applied in practice is set out not in the LGA 1999 itself but in statutory guidance, which is issued from time to time under section 26 of that Act. Best value replaced compulsory competitive tendering (CCT), which required local authorities in England and Wales to expose prescribed services to competitive tender in specified circumstances and allowed in-house delivery only where the internal team won the tender. Unlike CCT, best value is not directly concerned with outsourcing...

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