Our work areas and experience: Confidential Assignments

What We Offer

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A help line for your confidential problems.

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To evaluate your confidential local government issues and provide authoritative and practical advice to officers and members.

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Support to your Head of Paid Service, Monitoring or Section 151 officer.

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Confidential advice and support with high level employee problems including grievance, disciplinary problems and negotiating and finalising compromise agreements (where appropriate).

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Help with negotiations with third parties such as  your external auditor, partners or the Charity Commission.

Track Record

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We have a long established and extensive track record. As this work is confidential we are circumspect in giving examples.

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We have advised Monitoring and other senior officers on the split of responsibilities between Council and the Executive and the impact of an incorrect process.

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We have advised on and drafted “Wednesbury reasonable” reports mitigating real risk of successful challenge.

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We have advised Monitoring Officers and Chief Executives on high-level staffing problems, delivering compromise agreements and solutions with utter confidentiality.

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We have supported local authorities in their disputes with external regulators.

Other work areas:

Culture, Sport and Leisure

Human Resources and TUPE

Local Government and General

Partnering and Shared Services

Procurement

Property and Commercial

Social Care

Please contact us if you need any legal services not listed.