Richard Freeth

Career

Richard is a partner within the education team and has over 20 years’ experience of advising on education law issues. He leads on pastoral and SEND work within the education team. He’s recognised by Chambers and Legal 500 as a leading individual for advice on education law. Richard advises on a range of issues including admissions, exclusions, SEN and disability and equality issues.

Richard has supported schools through transition to foundation and trust status, established school companies, worked on sponsored academy projects and worked with governing board on their conversion to academy status. He has also clerked numerous admission appeals, exclusion reviews and complaint hearings. He advises and supports a number of local authorities on SEND issues and he has been involved in many SEND Tribunal appeals and a number of Upper Tribunal cases arising out of SEND Tribunal decisions.

Richard has provided training on a range of education law subjects. Alongside this, he continues to support schools, local authorities and health bodies on education/children services related issues. Richard is currently Chair of Trustees at Elm Tree MAT in Warwickshire.