Becky Thwaites, Head of Public Affairs at Blue Cross pet charity reflects on a recent Westminster Hall debate on pet theft.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has had its approach for dealing with the new European Insurance Distribution Directive approved by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Legal Services Board (LSB).

News that overnight allowance is to be paid to all those eligible officers who will be working away from home as part of the policing operation for the American presidential visit has been welcomed.

Ahead of her question today on the affordable housing programme, Baroness Thornhill writes about the social housing supply for PoliticsHome. 

The Home Office must instigate major reforms or risk another Windrush scandal happening “all over again to others in future,” a powerful group of MPs has said.

Lisa Nandy MP says the Government can no longer delay action as victims of the child migrant scandal are dying before they see justice served. 

The winners of the second annual Bar Council Employed Barristers' Awards have been announced following a black-tie dinner at the Imperial War Museum in London on Friday 29 June.

The Bar Council’s flagship social mobility initiative, Bar Placement Week, will this week mark 10 years of giving sixth form students from non-traditional backgrounds the opportunity to spend a week experiencing life as a barrister. 

A public consultation on evidence-based guidelines for chief officers on how they should deliver, support and develop neighbourhood policing has opened.

Amnesty International has called on the Home Office to bring an end to “shameful” fees of over £1000 for UK-born children of immigrants to obtain citizenship.

From the ‘Women in Politics Hackathon’ to a new youth ambassadors scheme, this week’s activities will be a chance to celebrate our thriving democracy, writes Chloe Smith

Politicians were partly to blame for the tragic killing of Jo Cox because of the atmosphere created by the EU referendum debate, the chaplain for the Houses of Parliament has said.

Dods People draws together a list of this week's appointments in Westminster politics, all the devolved administrations and the public affairs sector.

MPs have rounded on the Home Office after it provided “no credible explanation” for twice detaining two children of the Windrush generation.

Responding to the Bar Standards Board’s (BSB) new guide on customer feedback, a Bar Council spokesperson said: “Suggestions on techniques and approaches that barristers and chambers might adopt for eliciting constructive feedback from clients will no doubt be helpful.

No new parent should have to choose between abandoning their baby, or leaving their constituents without a voice. The right for MPs to vote by proxy is a straightforward change whose time has come, write Harriet Harman, Maria Miller and Hannah Bardell

Rebecca Weston, Sellafield director of strategy and technology, said:

Findings from the 2017 local Routine Arming Survey reports show that officers across England and Wales want better access to Tasers, as force-level reports are published today.

The UK could fail to hit legally binding emissions targets if it does not take "urgent action", the Government's official advisers have warned.

London MP and former Minister Stephen Hammond writes about an app, launched this week by one of his constituents. He writes "Knife crime is something that affects us all in some way and it’s time we all responsibly got involved".

Barristers and solicitor advocates representing clients in criminal courts are generally delivering a competent service to the public, two reports released today have found.

The Association of Former Members of Parliament has published the latest edition of its official journal Order! Order!

The annual National Conservative Convention board elections are happening again right now. Tories who want to get their hands on the levers of party machinery are vying for the attention of a tiny electorate of around 800 local chairmen and the primary contact method is through the Royal Mail. The arcane NCC race happens every year but slips completely under the radar because it is so private and hardly contested. Only in an internal Conservative party election could an outsider candidate with an OBE go up against a teddy bear salesman from Guildford. Emilio Casalicchio talks to some of the contestants and a few Tory bigwigs to find out what the race is all about.

IPSE (the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed) has today reacted to the Westminster Magistrates’ Court ruling that granted a probationary licence for Uber to operate in London.