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.

Our Services

Legal Advice for Educational Institutions Education Lawyers for Parents, Guardians and Young People Special Educational Needs (SEN) Solicitors

Contact Thomas Emmett

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

0330 818 2913 Send a message

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

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

Birkett Long are outstanding. Kimberley guided us through a very stressful experience of appealing for a school place for our daughter . Her patience and diligence was exceptional and we cannot thank her enough for her professional and comporting approach. She was well prepared and her argument was first class. Thank you as well to Thomas Emmett. Birkett long, a winning team!

Thank you so much for all your help with getting James the right placement. He is now halfway into the first term and doing really well. Just to let you know we had the SALT assessment for James last week. We now have his communication difficulties documented which without your help we wouldn't have had.

Birkett Long represented us in the legal process of joining a multi academy trust. The Education Team were able to provide the appropriate service for all stages of the process. Input was timely, queries were given the appropriate attention and information was forthcoming to meet the schedule for the merger. The process was achieved in a timely fashion. - Headteacher of an academy school

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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