Local Government Pensions Committee meaning

In this issue: Autumn Budget 2024 Social care Social housing Education Governance Children’s social care Healthcare Pensions Planning LexTalk®Local Government: a Lexis®Nexis community Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Latest Q&A Autumn Budget 2024 Welsh Government responds to Autumn Budget 2024 The Welsh Government has issued a written statement from the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Welsh Language, Mark Drakeford, addressing the Autumn Budget 2024. Wales will receive an extra £774m. Drakeford characterises the Budget as a positive boost for Wales, supporting citizens, communities, local enterprises and public services across the country nationwide. See: LNB News 31/10/2024 33. Social care When is a private care provider exercising a public function for the purposes of section 6 Human Rights Act 1998? (Sammut v Next Steps Mental Healthcare Ltd) Because the provider did not validly obtain authorisation for depriving a patient of liberty in its...

In this issue: Education Social care Public procurement Planning Governance Children's social care Pensions Social housing Healthcare Licensing Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Education Supreme Court holds that statutory religious education and collective worship in Northern Ireland school breached human rights (JR87 and another for Judicial Review (Appellant)) In In the matter of an application by JR87 and another for Judicial Review (Appellant), the Supreme Court unanimously upheld the appeal advanced by a schoolgirl, JR87, together with her father, against the Department of Education (Northern Ireland). The court determined that delivering religious education and conducting collective worship in Northern Ireland’s controlled schools, as required by the current statutory scheme, violated their rights under Article 2 of Protocol 1 (A2P1) to the European Convention on Human Rights, when read in conjunction with Article 9 ECHR. Victoria Dennis, Educational Law Solicitor at Doyle Clayton, has offered observations on the...

In this issue: Pension Schemes Bill Taxation of pensions Public sector pension schemes Daily and weekly news alerts Dates for your diary Trackers Pension Schemes Bill Pensions Schemes Bill makes progress during early stage of Grand Committee examination despite strong reservations on LGPS reforms On 12 January 2026, the House of Lords Grand Committee (Grand Committee) commenced its line-by-line review of the Pension Schemes Bill. The first sitting centred on Chapter 1, dealing with the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS), with particular attention to Clause 1 (asset pool companies) and Clause 2 (asset management). In the event, all amendments discussed that day were withdrawn, and both clauses were formally approved without alteration, after detailed discussion on the day. Even so, the exchanges exposed broad, cross-party anxiety over the scope of ministerial powers, the dependence on delegated legislation, the safeguarding of fiduciary duty, and how far Ministers might shape pension investment. On 14 January 2026, the Grand...

FORTHCOMING CHANGE 1 : On 1 September 2022, the DLUHC opened a consultation proposing new duties for the LGPS to oversee and disclose climate-related risks, including the carbon emissions tied to their investments. The LGPS is the UK’s largest public sector pension scheme, covering 6.2 million members and holding £342bn in assets worldwide. Under the government’s plans, administering authorities would be required to: Calculate their carbon footprint; Assess how climate change could influence pension-related assets and liabilities; and Report each year on the extent to which assets align with the 2015 Paris Accords, the international climate treaty adopted by much of the world. This seeks to enhance the management of climate-related financial risk and would bring the LGPS into line with requirements already in force for private pension schemes. The proposals are intended to replicate the Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) measures that already apply to the largest private occupational pension schemes and master trusts. The consultation closed...

ARCHIVED : This case tracker is archived and is no longer actively maintained. It presents a catalogue of notable pensions judgments delivered in 2017 by the courts. The entries in this tracker are arranged by subject. Those subjects appear in the Table of Contents (on the left side of the page), set out there. This Practice Note includes citations to case law from the Court of Justice of the European Union. In general, EU judgments issued on or before 31 December 2020 remain binding on UK courts and tribunals (even where the EU courts later depart from them) until the UK courts exercise their powers to diverge. For the most part, EU case law produced after that date is not binding on the UK, though UK courts and tribunals may still have regard to EU judgments where relevant. For fuller information on the approach to EU case law, see Practice Note: Retained EU law and assimilated law...