The Team has significant practical experience in advising governors, headteachers and school groups across a range of issues, including:

• Mergers, sales, and closure;
• Academy conversions, partnerships, and collaborative structures;
• Disability, reasonable adjustments, and SEN;
• Child protection, safeguarding, and managing allegations against staff;
• Admissions, exclusions, and appeals;
• Pastoral issues, behaviour, bullying, and use of force;
• Educational negligence;
• Policy review, compliance, and preparation for inspection;
• FOIA and Data Protection matters;
• Issues arising from unpaid fees / fees in lieu of notice;
• Governance and trustee duties; and
• Charity law issues and public benefit.

Flexible Fee Structures

We offer a range of rates including fixed and capped fees to our education clients.  We also offer fixed rates to independent schools, academies and school groups for general legal services (e.g. covering an academic year). Please contact Helen Tucker to discuss further.

Academy Conversions

We offer a fixed fee rate to cover all legal work from the initial consultation to conversion and registration.  

Other related practice areas:

• Employment;
• Charity and Governance;
• Reputation Management;
• Data Protection;
• Commercial Contracts;
• Commercial Property;
• Planning;
• Construction;
• Projects and PFI/BSF;
• Debt Recovery;
• Financial Services (fee charging clients);
• IP/IT;
• Property Litigation;
• Litigation and Dispute Resolution; and
• Restructuring and Insolvency.

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