The Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills Order 2025, effective March 13, 2025, appoints several individuals as His Majesty’s Inspectors of Education, Children’s Services and Skills.

The appointments are made under the authority of the Education and Inspections Act 2006 and aim to maintain standards within these crucial sectors.

The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2025 amend multiple NHS pension scheme regulations, primarily correcting errors and inconsistencies, updating tax provisions following the abolition of the lifetime allowance, improving leave provision, and enhancing calculation accuracy.

These changes affect various NHS pension schemes introduced in 1995, 2000, 2008, and 2015, with several provisions applied retrospectively.

These regulations amend the UK's implementation of the EU's Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Regulation (EU) 2019/1021.

Specifically, they modify the permitted uses of Dechlorane Plus and UV-328, allowing their continued use in certain applications, such as aerospace, defense, and medical devices, until specific dates in 2030 and 2044.

The amendments also clarify permitted use for replacement parts and repairs within those applications.

The regulations ensure consistency with previous UK legislation (S.I. 2025/296).

The National Health Service (Dental Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, effective April 1st, 2025, increase several NHS dental treatment charges in England.

These increases, specified in Regulation 2, amend the 2005 Regulations to adjust charges for Bands 1, 2, and 3 treatments.

The explanatory note justifies the changes as routine inflation adjustments, asserting that a full impact assessment is unnecessary due to the lack of policy changes and continued eligibility for exemptions.

The Food Crime Officers (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2025, effective May 1, 2025, establish a framework for handling complaints and misconduct involving Food Standards Agency food crime officers in England and Wales.

The regulations adapt the Police Reform Act 2002, outlining procedures for investigations, reporting to the Secretary of State, and payment arrangements.

They detail the roles of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), the Food Standards Agency chief executive, and the Secretary of State, including responsibilities for investigations, referrals, and reporting.

The regulations also address issues like evidence preservation, timeliness of investigations, the role of an 'FSA friend,' and restrictions on disclosure of sensitive information, while incorporating mechanisms for review and appeal.

These regulations, effective May 1st, 2025, extend certain provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE) and the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (CJPOA) to food crime officers in England and Wales.

Specifically, they grant food crime officers powers related to entry, search, seizure, and detention, subject to modifications outlined in the regulations.

The changes aim to enhance the investigation and prosecution of food-related crimes.

These regulations amend fees payable to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under the UK REACH regulations.

The amendments adjust various fees across multiple annexes (Annex 1-7) of the overarching REACH regulation, which sets fees for chemical registrations and authorisations.

The adjustments consider changes in the consumer price index and HSE administrative costs.

The changes affect fees for different sized businesses and different applications and differ in their variations

The Health Protection (Notification) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, effective April 6th, 2025, amend the 2010 regulations to enhance disease surveillance in England and Wales.

Key changes include adding respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) to the notification requirements for diagnostic laboratories and expanding the lists of notifiable diseases and causative agents in Schedules 1 and 2, respectively, to include conditions such as acute flaccid paralysis, chickenpox, and various pathogens.