Alison Paines

Consultant | London Cambridge

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24 May 2024 | Article

'Be of Good Counsel' The role of counselling in schools – legal and other issues to consider
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6 December 2023 | Article

Should we pay school governors in the UK?
Parliament

6 December 2023 | Article

Public bodies and foreign policy in the UK
Classroom

5 December 2023 | Article

Labour proposals for independent schools in the UK: avoiding some pitfalls of contingency planning

13 June 2023 | Article

Bad Behaviour (parents, not children)
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16 March 2023 | Article

What is a school governor? Why do I do it? What can I do better?

1 March 2023 | Firm news

Withers' charities and philanthropy team wins recognition in major awards and directories

30 September 2022 | Article

We're all in this together – a holistic approach to safeguarding in UK schools: Keeping Children Safe in Education 2022

31 May 2022 | Article

Thoughts on the March 2022 Westminster School report into harmful behaviours - what can other schools learn from the review?

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6 August 2019 | Article

Charities, data protection officers, GDPR: where are we now?
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1 August 2019 | Article

Charity Commission releases report on whistle blowing disclosures made in 2018-2019
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1 August 2019 | Article

Electoral Commission publishes new guidance for non-party campaigners
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1 August 2019 | Article

Charity Commission removes a second trustee from the Rigpa Fellowship
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1 August 2019 | Article

New Amazon CSR project
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1 August 2019 | Article

Change to time limit for responding to requests from data subjects
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25 June 2018 | Article

The Charity Commission launches welcome packs for new trustees
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25 June 2018 | Article

The Fundraising Regulation's updated guidance on handling complaints
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21 June 2018 | Article

The Institute of Fundraising's practical guidance for dealing with donations
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25 May 2018 | Article

Changes to the Code of Fundraising Practice ahead of GDPR
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25 May 2018 | Article

Fundraising: new guidance for charity annual reporting
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25 May 2018 | Article

The Freedom of Information Act 2000 - for charities too?
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18 April 2018 | Article

Proposed changes to disclosure of company directors' addresses and implications for charities
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18 April 2018 | Article

New regime for taxation of termination payments in employment
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9 April 2018 | Article

What does the new deferred debt arrangement mean for charities?

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5 March 2018 | Article

Gambling Commission introduces new rules
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5 March 2018 | Article

Charity Commission makes changes to annual returns
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5 March 2018 | Article

Changes to automatic disqualification for trustees

External publications

  • Charities chapter to Chambers & Partners publication 'Legal Brexit' - August 2016

  • Edits and contributes to Oxford University Press' 'International Charitable Giving' - published - November 2012

  • She writes the Department of Health's Guidance on 'NHS charities' conversion to independence' - December 2012, updated March 2015

  • Comparative legal structures for charities and other non-profits across the European Union

  • ‘Revenue Law - Principles and Practice', ‘Charities' chapter of Tolley's

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