Can the suspension of an employee amount to a repudiatory breach of contract? This was considered in the High Court case of Agoreyo v London Borough of Lambeth. Legal background The term of mutual trust and confidence is implied into all employment contracts.…
Since September 2016, schools, colleges and nurseries have been required to ask parents to provide details of where their children were born, as well as nationality and English language proficiency. The new legislation has been met with backlash from schools, parents and…
In June 2013 the Department for Education announced an intention to revise advice for Teacher Misconduct. The intention was to clarify the Department’s expectation that any sexual misconduct and any criminal conviction or caution which involved the indecent images of children…
The Public Benefit debate is set to continue as the Charity Commission have confirmed that its revised guidance on Public Benefit is to be released to the public this Summer. The revised guidance is the long heralded result of the important…
Schools will be among those bodies most affected by the implementation of the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 and the recent Course of Appeal case, which have brought in significant changes to criminal records checks for any organisations that work…
A return to final examinations, an emphasis on our national history and Shakespeare, and a new marking system. The Government has unveiled a symphony of reforms to the way GCSE examinations are conducted in England. With the Government’s aim to…
They made us wait six years, but finally, at the end of 2012, the Charity Commission began the implementation of what could be viewed as one of the most innovative reforms of the Charities Act 2006, and started accepting registrations…
The debate that has followed the decision of the Exam Authorities last Summer to combat grade inflation by changing the grade boundaries of the June 2012 GCSE exams, has concluded with a legal attempt to overturn the GCSE results being…
This month sees the introduction to Parliament of the new Children and Families Bill, which proposes radical changes to the Special Educational Needs (SEN) provisions. The Bill follows on from the SEN Green Paper, Support and aspiration: a new approach to…
Against the backdrop of its drive to reduce red tape and what it describes as a culture of unnecessary checking and a tick box approach to safeguarding, the Government has issued revised guidance on safeguarding of children to which schools…
