Stone King - Quick Reads

3/27/2026 10:26:23 AM

Home Office fees set to increase on 8 April 2026

By Emily Ball

The Government has announced an increase to a number of immigration and nationality fees. Some of the headline changes include: Sponsor...

3/26/2026 3:21:04 PM

By Emily Ball

Student visa applications submitted from today by nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan will be refused (as will Skilled...

3/11/2026 9:27:12 AM

By Ciara Campfield

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

2/13/2026 9:58:31 AM

By Lee Coley

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

2/9/2026 1:27:38 PM

By Lee Coley

A significant shift is taking place in the UK’s approach to public service reform. With the creation of the Office for the Impact Economy...

2/4/2026 3:25:56 PM

By Amy Berry

The Government has launched a consultation today (Wednesday 04 February 2026) on ‘restricted variations’ for the purposes of fire and...

1/23/2026 1:55:15 PM

By Ciara Campfield

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

1/15/2026 2:55:02 PM

By Ciara Campfield

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...

12/17/2025 4:13:19 PM

By Lee Coley

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

12/9/2025 1:25:19 PM

By Ciara Campfield

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

12/8/2025 2:19:51 PM

By Lee Coley

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

12/8/2025 1:37:38 PM

By Ciara Campfield

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...