Our services: education

Most children will experience difficulties during their education from time to time.

Some face more serious problems than others but do not always receive the correct support. In these circumstances, expert legal advice can help you ensure that your child receives the education he or she needs.

We provide an expert legal service to help parents put their case for additional assistance and for appropriate education. The child’s needs must always come first, so we take care to work alongside their school wherever possible, to develop a partnership in the child’s interests. We will also work alongside any charities involved.

We can:

• advise on how to secure appropriate special needs provision
• draft appeal and represent you at tribunals
• make sure your child gets the help they are legally entitled to through judicial review
• assist with admissions and exclusions
• advise on claims against schools and local authorities for failure to provide appropriate education or to deal appropriately with a child’s disability
• advise on other educational claims against local authorities involving matters such as transport, access to funding and other issues.

We carry out our own advocacy in most of these cases, so you can be confident that the person representing you at a hearing has been fully involved with the file from the beginning.

We can also advise on aspects of higher education law to ensure that the right courses are delivered in the right way under the contract between the educational body and its students. We have successfully challenged unlawful disciplinary action. We have obtained redress for students who have suffered from discrimination on grounds of disability. We deal with student finance too.

To find out more about our education services, please contact us.

SEN Helpline:

Tel: 0845 388 0108
(Mon-Fri 9am to 5pm)