Our nationally recognised education and charities team advises on the whole range of legal, pastoral and public relations concerns affecting maintained schools and academies.
How can we help you?
We can provide the full range of legal services to maintained schools and academies including:
- child protection and safeguarding
- pupil discipline, admissions, SEN and disability (including the new SENDIST Tribunal rules)
- complaints, incident management and litigation
- regulation and inspection
- judicial review
- the relationship with the local authority
- employment contracts, policies and procedures
- full support service for all HR issues including disciplinary, grievances, discrimination and redundancies
- governance
- commercial contracts and outsourcing
- funding
- property, construction and PFI.
We also have particular expertise advising schools, trust partners, sponsors, project boards, and local authorities on school organisation including:
- the conversion of community and foundation schools to trust schools
- advice on prescribed alterations
- the establishment of academies
- federations and amalgamations
- new schools and closures
- the role of the Office of the Schools Adjudicator.
For further information on academies or trust schools please click on the relavent link.
