‘The Supreme Court will next week hold an expedited hearing in the high-profile unauthorised school absence case involving the Isle of Wight Council.’
Local Government Lawyer, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Rachel Barrett and Chris Milsom discuss the recent case of Interim Executive Board of X School v Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills [2016] EWHC 2813 (Admin) in this blog.’
Cloisters, 10th November 2016
Source: www.cloisters.com
‘Racial discrimination is being covered up by schools in order to protect Ofsted ratings, the British Youth Council has warned, with incidents of racist and religious taunting being readily dismissed as “banter”.’
The Independent, 19th November 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Interim Executive Board of X School v Chief Inspector of Education, Children’s Services and Skills [2016] EWHC 2813 (Admin). The principal issue in this application for judicial review was whether a mixed school unlawfully discriminated against its male and/or female pupils by making “parallel arrangements” for their education in the same building or by applying a regime of “complete segregation” for all lessons, breaks, school clubs and trips. There was no evidence that either girls or boys were treated unequally in terms of the quality of the education they received (in the sense of one sex receiving a lower quality of education than the other).’
UK Human Rights Blog, 10th November 2016
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A high court judge has ruled that Ofsted inspectors were wrong to penalise an Islamic faith school because of their “erroneous” view that segregation of boys and girls amounted to unlawful discrimination.’
The Guardian, 8th November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The murder of a teacher by one of her pupils during a class at a Leeds school could not have been predicted or pre-empted, an official investigation has found.’
the Guardian, 8th November 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Theresa May will set aside decades of cross-party consensus in education policy by ending the ban on the creation of new grammar schools and attempt to head off critics by proposing measures intended to prevent poorer children losing out.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th September 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Home Office approved plans to carry out drug trials on children at two schools for young offenders in the 1960s, according to files released by the National Archives.’
The Guardian, 22nd August 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A woman who won a judgment against her local authority after she nearly drowned during a school swimming lesson 16 years ago has been awarded £2m in compensation.’
The Guardian, 21st August 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘School caretakers, secretaries and dinner ladies could face prosecution and possible imprisonment for failing to report signs of child abuse or neglect under official proposals in the wake of the Savile, Rotherham and Rochdale scandals.’
The Guardian, 21st July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The government’s Prevent strategy aimed at combating homegrown terrorism is stifling freedom of expression within the classroom and risks being counterproductive, a human rights report warns.’
The Guardian, 13th July 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘At least ten local councils in England have dropped legal actions against parents accused of taking their children on holiday during school term time, newly-released data shows.’
Daily Telegraph, 9th July 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A council has been told it can apply to challenge a High Court decision which ruled in favour of a father who took his daughter on holiday in term time.’
BBC News, 30th June 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Sex offenders think they’ll get away with it. And often they do. Sometimes it can take years to bring them to justice, while others escape retribution altogether. So how do you go about making sure perpetrators of horrendous crimes committed in the distant past are caught and convicted?’
BBC News, 20th June 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A court decision not to fine a father who took his daughter on an unauthorised term-time holiday is set to be challenged.’
BBC News, 9th June 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The man who defeated Isle of Wight Council in a high-profile court battle over the enforcement of a fine imposed for taking his daughter to Florida during term time has unveiled plans to take forward group litigation.’
Local Government Lawyer, 8th June 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘An investigation by The Independent revealed thousands of children have disappeared from the education system to be taught at illegal schools where they are at risk of abuse.’
The Independent, 4th June 2016
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Parents of children with special educational needs and disabilities are taking legal action against an academy trust for proposing to bus their children from a well-performing school to a worse alternative because of limited resources.’
The Guardian, 2nd June 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
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