Schools

KCC Legal Services provide a comprehensive legal service to all schools, colleges and institutions of further and higher education.

Read about the Schools' Legal Services Insurance Scheme.

Read the latest edition of the Education Law Update newsletter.

We have carried out work for over 75 educational establishments across England. Find out who we have worked with in our list of external clients. In particular, we have expertise in the following areas:

• contract drafting, negotiation, termination and dispute resolution
• constructive resolving disputes with parents
• property and planning matters including disputes with school neighbours re encroachment
• highways advice including public access to school property and rights of way
• procurement and tendering advice and drafting
• discrimination claims including appeals to the SENDisT and High Court judicial reviews
• staff issues including compromise agreements and tribunal claims
• school transport appeals
• governance matters
• fixed notice for excluded pupils
• admission and exclusion appeals