For the first time in a long while, it feels as though education, social care, community economics, and national resilience policy are...

In 2023, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York issued a report called Care and Support Reimagined: a National Care Covenant for England...

If you work with public contracts, you’ll know the Procurement Act 2023 officially kicked in on 24 February 2025. But thanks to the...

Public services today face high demand, limited budgets, and deep social challenges. We see it daily in the work we do at Stone King as a...

My son turns 14 this week (yikes!). Like every parent, I want to keep him safe – especially online. I read the Children’s Commissioner’s...

At a press conference yesterday, Richard Tice, Deputy Leader of Reform UK, suggested looking to churches that are ‘redundant' five days a...

The Prime Minister’s promise this week to “have a look” at the VAT anomaly hitting further education (FE) colleges is welcome, but it...

The UK has - for the first time under the Procurement Act 2023 - issued revised procurement thresholds, effective 1 January 2026.Most...

Churchyards are a profound mix of grief, love, calm, nature and beauty.  They represent a means to retain connections with those who have...

As a commercial contracts and procurement lawyer, I’ve seen the same issue play out again and again: contracts have become dense,...

I read an interesting article by Alan Smith this morning about how The Church Commissioners try to use their investments to create...

I've just been reading the latest child poverty figures, and once again they stop me in my tracks, because no matter how long I’ve worked...

An amendment has been proposed to the Government of Jersey's budget to grant £50,000 a year to each of the island's 12 churches for...

Yesterday was the ILPA (Immigration Law Practitioners Association) AGM. I have been a Trustee of ILPA for many years, and have been...

The ongoing discussion around the value of the Listed Places of Worship Grant Scheme has been added to by a recent survey undertaken for...

We were delighted to attend this year’s AoC Annual Conference on 18–19 November 2025 at The ICC in Birmingham. This year’s programme...