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Education

The law relating to education is vast and diverse, and necessarily so. But this means it can be challenging to navigate. We offer specialist education law advice to everyone in the education arena, from students to parents, and from nurseries to universities. Experience has shown that good - and early - legal advice can make a real difference. 

Our education law solicitors have decades of experience advising parents, guardians, young people and educational institutions.

They are experts in their fields and advise on areas such as special educational needs, admissions, employment, property, governance, disputes, commercial, construction and exclusions, to name but a few. 

We provide quality legal advice in a timely fashion that demonstrates our understanding of the sector. 

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Contact Thomas Emmett

If you would like to talk to us about how we can help, please contact Thomas Emmett, Head of Education.

We provide quality legal advice that demonstrates our understanding of the sector.

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For parents, guardians and carers

We support parents, guardians and young people in matters relating to EHCPs and SENDIST claims, including:

Refusal to assess appeals
Refusal to issue EHCP appeals
Appeals after an annual review
Appeals relating to the contents of an EHCP
Disability discrimination
Appealing a decision to cease to maintain an EHCP.

For education establishments

We support a range of organisations in the education sector. We provide legal advice to universities and further and higher education institutions, as well as colleges, schools and nurseries. Our clients include:
University of Essex
Writtle University College
Colchester Institute
South Essex College
Colchester Sixth Form College

BL education retainer products

For schools, academies and other educational institutions we offer cost effective fixed fee solutions with our BL education retainer products:

BL Education legal retainer
BL Education employment law & HR retainer
BL Education data protection support retainer
BL Education company secretarial retainer

Get in touch

Our education law solicitors have a deep interest in the education sector. Several members of the team, as well as other staff at Birkett Long, are school governors. Our education solicitors will advise and support all key stakeholders.

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