Education: Individuals

Nothing changes lives like education. That’s why it is essential that schools, higher education providers, local authorities and funders get the law right. Education law is complex, and expert advice is often required. In serious cases, legal rights must be enforced and tested in tribunals and courts.

Our education law solicitors have over 20 years’ experience and advise on all aspects of education law, including:

• Admissions and exclusions
• Disability discrimination claims
• Education, Health and Care (EHC) needs assessments and plans
• Free speech issues in higher education
• Funding disputes and cuts
• Higher education disputes
• Home Office TOEIC decisions and consequences
• Responses to sexual violence and hate speech
• Independent school disputes
• Judicial review challenges
• Ofsted inspections and regulatory processes
• Policy and procedure drafting for serious issues
• Safeguarding matters
• School transport issues
• Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal cases
• Transition to adulthood

We recognise the overlap between education law, local authority duties and community care. Our solicitors are also community care specialists, enabling us to secure education, health and social care provision for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

Our team also handles wider public law challenges, including school closures, cuts to SEN funding and policy challenges relating to education decisions.