We support the full range of education institutions, from nurseries to universities, with a large team of dedicated and passionate education lawyers who are immersed in the sector.
We understand the complexity of education law and best practice and offer you experienced education lawyers who are always on hand to give you practical legal solutions to the problems you face and the confidence to react positively to opportunities. We pride ourselves on providing a first class legal service to the education sector, with transparency on fees and competitive rates.
Department of Education (DofE) guidance on supporting gender questioning children was published on Tuesday 19 December 2023. The guidance is based around 5 core principles and offers schools a useful checklist for decision making as well as advice on specific issues such as single sex spaces and pronouns.
The guidance is non-statutory and applies to all schools. It has been published in draft for public consultation, which will run to the 12 March 2024, but we think that schools can reasonably have regard to it in their decision making in the meantime. Schools can now read the guidance and respond to the consultation. The final guidance will be published later next year.
If you have any questions about the guidance or need advice on any of these issues, please contact James Garside on 0117 314 5639.
The British education sector, which includes some of the world's top independent schools, academies, special schools, further education colleges and universities, is key to the long term success of our economy and it is an important export to the rest of the world. We are privileged to work with many of today's leaders in the education sector and to support them in a time of great change, innovation and opportunity arising from government policy, financial pressures, technological advances and globalisation.
Our Education team are commended by The Times in their survey of the Best Law Firms 2020.
Our education lawyers support the full range of education institutions in the sector, including:
We also provide specialist legal advice to UK Education Investors and on International Education Projects.
Our education lawyers are ranked in the top tier of both Chambers & Partners and Legal 500 and assist over 1,000 education institutions across all types of contentious and non-contentious matters.
We have created dedicated OnStream portals for independent schools, academies and higher education institutions.
Each portal brings together a collection of resources, know-how and experience in one place for you to access at a time that suits you.
Under VWV Plus we offer a range of cost-effective solutions to help you resolve and manage your legal needs, manage compliance and implement best practice.
All of our offerings combine software with our legal knowledge and are designed to save you time and resource. Many of our VWV Plus products have been created to streamline processes in the main risk areas such as:
Policy Tracker to enable you to share an unlimited number of key documents or policies with staff, track online that they have been read and automate reminders
VWV's education team are commercially astute and keep up to speed with trends and moves in the independent school sector - they are therefore able to provide relevant and up-to-date advice to clients.
Our education lawyers have a broad variety of legal expertise and offer a full legal service to institutions in the education sector
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