Our Education team are specialists who understand the unique legal and regulatory framework that applies to the Education sector. Given the fast pace of change in the sector, we deliver prompt, focused, quality legal advice. Our friendly team establish excellent relationships with the Schools and Trusts that we work so that we can respond effectively to the needs of your organisation.

We are experts at advising all types of maintained Schools, academies and multi academy trusts (MATs) with legal issues which arise from time to time including:

• Contracts/procurement
• Employment
• Exclusions
• Admissions
• Parent complaints
• Discrimination claims
• Governance advice, including company/charity law, managing conflicts of interest, governance reviews, strategic support for Trust Boards and company secretarial support
• Capital works/construction/expansion
• Land and buildings/lettings
• Freedom of Information
• Data Protection/GDPR
• Safeguarding
• Crisis management
• SEND