‘The Upper Tribunal has once again taken the First Tier Tribunal firmly by the shoulders and given it a thorough lesson in how to handle Equality Act 2010 claims properly.’
3PB, 12th March 2025
Source: www.3pb.co.uk
‘Teenagers who are permanently excluded from school are twice as likely to commit serious violence within a year of their expulsion than those who were merely suspended, a large-scale new analysis of police and education records has shown.’
The Guardian, 22nd March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A paedophile who stole a terminally ill man’s identity and spent almost three decades on the run has been convicted of 54 child sex abuse charges.’
BBC News, 17th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The historic injustice of a scandal in which black children were incorrectly labelled “educationally subnormal” and sent to schools for physically and mentally disabled pupils must be addressed with a public inquiry, an MP has said.’
The Guardian, 13th March 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A secondary school teacher has been banned from the profession after having an inappropriate relationship with a pupil.’
BBC News, 11th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has unanimously dismissed a former teacher’s appeal against a finding by the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) that he had developed an “inappropriate relationship” with a pupil – and therefore would be precluded from being a teacher – despite a separate TRA disciplinary panel finding he was not guilty of professional misconduct.’
Local Government Lawyer , 4th March 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A convicted murderer spent almost two years working with children after he was barred from doing so, the BBC has learned.’
BBC News, 4th March 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A council has been told to pay a family more than £6,000 after failing to provide alternative education to a pupil who struggled to attend classes.’
BBC News, 25th February 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The Court of Appeal has rejected an appeal over a High Court judge’s finding that the protective duty under Article 4 of the European Court of Human Rights had not been triggered at the time when a governing body’s disciplinary panel decided not to reinstate a pupil following his permanent exclusion.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th February 2025
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Prevent counter-terrorism scheme “prematurely” closed its case on Axel Rudakubana three years before he went on to murder three children in Southport, a government review has found.’
BBC News, 5th February 2025
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Bridget Phillipson will promise a “new era for school standards” as Labour and Ofsted replace single-word judgments for schools with more detailed report cards.’
The Independent, 3rd February 2025
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The driver of a Land Rover that crashed into a school in Wimbledon, killing two children, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, the Metropolitan police have said.’
The Guardian, 28th January 2025
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The government has expressed alarm at “deeply distressing” allegations of emotional harm at one of the country’s leading academy trusts after an Observer investigation.’
The Guardian, 7th December 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The children’s commissioner for England has called for an urgent review of the use of restraint and “calming rooms” after leaked CCTV footage showed autistic children being pushed into a padded space where they were left distressed, self-harming and sitting in vomit.’
The Guardian, 27th November 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A High Court judge has rejected a judicial review claim over a decision by a school governing body’s disciplinary panel not to reinstate a teenage boy to his school following a permanent exclusion, which occurred as a result of “persistent breaches” of the school’s behaviour policy.’
Local Government Lawyer, 19th November 2024
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Nearly 3,000 fines have been given to motorists for continuing to ignore new traffic-free zones set up around schools in a part of Kent.’
BBC News, 12th November 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man found to have been repeatedly restrained and once detained for nearly five hours at his former school will receive £18,900 in damages.’
BBC news, 10th November 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Smoking is set to be banned outside schools and hospitals in England as part of a crackdown on one of the UK’s biggest killers and its most common cause of cancer.’
The Guardian, 5th November 2024
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A group representing 1,400 private schools will press ahead with plans for a legal challenge against the government’s introduction of VAT from January, the BBC can reveal.’
BBC News, 31st October 2024
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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