With over 19 years' experience advising schools and colleges, Simon is ideally placed to advise you in all aspects of education employment law.
He has become the first port of call for many client relationship, his focus being to understand you and your school's needs. He has developed expertise in incident management, safeguarding and safer recruitment, restructuring, salary scales, contracts and procedures, as well as employee relations.
Meeting Your Needs
Simon is an employment law specialist.
He understands that schools want to focus on education and seeks to provide practical and commercial solutions in routine as well as challenging times. He leads the firm's Safer Recruitment training programme which is now in its tenth successful year of meeting the sector's safeguarding agenda.
Year of qualification - 1999
What Others Say
Simon Bevan is an 'expert, professional, charming, patient.' - Legal 500
'Simon Bevan is an outstanding partner for employment law matters. His advice is always sound but is also balanced by a good understanding of the practical issues and the operational requirements of his clients.' - Legal 500
"Simon is fantastic." - Chambers & Partners 2024
"Simon is our lead partner and provides outstanding service. I feel hugely confident in his pragmatic solutions to problems and he is always very responsive. I feel we are well supported and valued as a client." - Chambers & Partners 2024
"He is a brilliant solicitor who is pre-eminent in the education field." - Chambers & Partners 2024
"Simon provides outstanding service. I feel hugely confident in his pragmatic solutions to problems and he is always very responsive. I feel we are well supported and valued as a client." - Chambers & Partners 2024
What You Need to Know
Simon spent his early career lecturing law in universities. He is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association (ELA) and was previously a school governor.
He is a regular speaker at national and regional education conferences and writes for numerous publications on sector specific issues.
Simon enjoys spending time with his family and keeping fit.