Education

About

As education lawyers, we recognise that if you operate in the education sector you face many challenges. These may arise from your activities or your status as a school, college or university, charity, employer, service provider, property owner or occupier, or commercial contractor.

When it comes to education law, we can advise you on the challenges of this specialist sector and our team of education lawyers has extensive knowledge and experience of dealing with its complexities.

Hewitsons' team of education lawyers has specialists dealing with all aspects of the education sector, including:

Academies and multi-academy conversions
Admissions and exclusions
Charity law compliance
Commercial contracts and procurement
Constitutional advice
Data protection, GDPR and freedom of information
Dispute resolution and mediation
Employment and HR
Equality
Health and safety
Governance and governing body support
Immigration
Independent school mergers and acquisitions
Intellectual property and online issues
Mergers, collaborations and acquisitions
Parent and pupil issues
Pensions and the TPS
Planning and environmental
Property development and construction
Risk management and strategic planning
Safeguarding
School policies and procedures
Unpaid school fees and debt recovery

We can offer a retainer service at an agreed fee which provides invaluable support for busy bursars and HR managers. We are also able to carry out health checks and reviews of any area of your organisation, annually or otherwise.