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We are two skilled and accomplished education lawyers who are passionate about assisting families with education disputes, particularly those involving special educational needs. We are non-practising solicitors offering specialist, high quality advice on all aspects of education law and related social care issues.
We have extensive experience of conducting successful cases in the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal (SEND) and appeals to the Upper Tribunal. Over the past 25 years, we have secured many high-value independent specialist school placements for children with special educational needs, including residential provision.
We also have considerable experience in other areas of education law, such as school admissions, exclusions, school complaints, discrimination, judicial review and further and higher education disputes.
Between us we have practised for over 40 years as education lawyers. We are now running Education Law Experts Ltd as non-practising solicitors and our business is not regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. This enables us to offer our services in a more flexible way and at a lower cost than most law firms.
We chose to stop practising as solicitors so that we can work more closely with families and provide holistic support tailored to meet their individual needs. We are committed to ensuring that we support clients in the most cost-effective way, and our lower overheads enable us to do this.
Education Law Experts provide pragmatic and straightforward advice. We are robust in dealings with local authorities and will fight your corner with passion and tenacity. We will guide you through what can be a difficult process with empathy and integrity to achieve a solution that is right for you. We work hard to reach solutions through a mixture of negotiation, mediation and appeals.
We use our detailed knowledge of the law to deliver clear and straightforward advice to achieve practical solutions for our clients whilst also being completely honest in our assessment of your chances of success.
We offer advice on school exclusions and appeals including representation at disciplinary committee and Independent Review Panel hearings.
We advise on school admissions and assist with admissions appeals. We can represent you at an admissions appeal hearing if required.
We assist with complaints against schools, colleges, any other education institutions. We also help with complaints against local authorities, including complaints to the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman.
We are specialists in disability discrimination. We can assist with claims to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal, but not in County Court cases.
We assist students with complaints and internal appeals, including complaints to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator.
We advise on local authority statutory duties and will enter into pre-action correspondence where there has been a breach. If this is not successful, then we can refer you to an appropriate firm of solicitors should you wish to pursue an application for judicial review.
We offer a free 20-minute telephone consultation with one of our experts. This can be requested by completing the form below:
We cannot consider paperwork as part of this consultation.
Our service begins with an initial assessment and advice, which we offer for a fixed fee. This includes consideration of relevant paperwork and provision of written advice.
Our advice will include:
You are under no obligation to instruct us further following our initial advice and you may not need to. However, if you do instruct us for further advice, support, guidance or representation then our work is charged according to the time we spend on your case.
We will be able to give you a tailored estimate of the time required to deal with your case as part of our initial advice.