Lawyers within our Education team specialise in all areas of law impacting on the governance of maintained schools and academies.

Veale Wasbrough Vizards advises all types of maintained schools including community, foundation, voluntary aided, voluntary controlled, trust, nurseries and early years providers, special schools and academies. We also advise further education and higher education institutions.

Our lawyers have considerable experience dealing with:

• amending instruments of government
• conflicts of interest within the governing body
• terms of reference for sub-committees
• governor conduct
• governor appointment and removal
• decision making
• federations
• safer recruitment
• charitable status and
• OFSTED inspections.

As well as the above, in relation specifically to academies we advise on:

• amendments to the memorandum and articles of association
• duties of governors as charity trustees and company directors and
• liason with the Charity Commission, Companies House and the Department for Education.

We also offer bespoke training for your governors as well as free of charge email updates.

For further information, please contact Chloe Brunton on 0117 314 5301 or Martha Burnige on 020 7665 0835.