Our education team is made up of lawyers from across our firm, who can help you navigate any area of the law.
We’ll guide you through the process if you’re moving or expanding your teaching premises, need some help with teacher or lecturer contracts, want advice on equality and diversity or student issues, or are facing a regulatory or governance challenge. Many of our lawyers are also Welsh speakers, so we can advise you in Welsh, if you prefer.
We’re on the Welsh Government Commercial Delivery – WGCD Framework (formerly the National Procurement Service Solicitors’ Framework for Wales), Crescent Purchasing Consortium, London Universities Purchasing Consortium, and Crown Commercial Services legal panels, so you have easy access to our services.
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We also offer a wide range of consultancy services through our integrated HR consultancy business, Capital People.
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We advise and assist education, private and public sector clients and regulatory bodies on the implications of GDPR and preparation for and compliance with the new regulation. This involves responding to complex queries and analysis and interpretation of the new regulation. We can help with:
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We provide practical solutions and support for commercial and legal risk management in a wide range of areas, including:
We also deliver accredited training programmes through our integrated consultancy Capital People – comprising IOSH, NEBOSH and CIEH courses – focusing on equipping your staff to meet their responsibilities at all levels, and outlining specific risks relevant to your organisation.
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We advise on all areas of intellectual property (IP) law – from international brand strategy and protection to IP exploitation and dispute resolution. We’ll ensure you protect what’s yours and help you exploit its true value. Contentious and not.
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As an essential part of our day-to-day work, we closely monitor the latest legislative developments in both Wales and England, informing our clients of changes that are particularly affecting their activities. We do this through:
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Capital Collect is a service we have developed to recover uncontroversial debts such as rent fees and debts. The Capital Collect service is a non-collection service, with no initial fee for all non-controversial debts up to six years. If this does not work, we can continue with court proceedings or other routes based on a host of fixed cost options. Either way, our clients have assurance of control, clarity and certainty.
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The Additional Learning Needs (ALN) and Educational Tribunal Act was passed in January 2018 and will begin to be rolled out from the start of the new school year in September 2020. Our training will help you with:
Safeguarding and child protection requirements are increasingly strict, so it’s important that your procedures are up to date. We deliver training to help you deal with:
Complaints from parents and/or third parties can be tricky to deal with and highly emotive. We can provide guidance on the procedure to follow and some do’s or don’ts especially relating to vexatious or persistent complainants.
We can also provide training on the interplay between the school’s complaints procedure and other procedures such as:
With the new curriculum to be introduced in classrooms in Wales from 2022, it’s crucial that schools have the right governance and leadership structure, to enable transition. That’s why we develop training tailored to Chairs of Governors, Head Teachers and Clerks, covering:
In the event of allegations being made about or by your staff in the course of their employment, having the right procedures in place, and understanding them, is a necessity. We can deliver training on:
To help you make fair decisions, our training also covers:
If a member of your staff is removed from their role, you may need to make a referral to the Education Workforce Council (EWC). This often requires schools to release sensitive information, and to give evidence at an EWC hearing. We can provide guidance and training on:
As well as advising education institutions on their legal and regulatory obligations in the UK, we have significant experience of advising UK further and higher education entities that wish to set up franchises, joint ventures or corporate enterprises providing education services abroad.
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