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Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:

This FAQ looks at what a school can do when a divorced father wishes to attend his son’s school’s parents’ evening. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.

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Practical Law Public Sector addresses the questions that schools may ask local authorities regarding day-to-day school management and sets out the legal issues to consider when responding:

This FAQ looks at what a school can do when a pupil has written lies about one of its teachers on a social networking site. For details of all our school hotline queries, please see Practice note, Schools hotline FAQs.

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Our third post of 2014 on the key developments in public procurement legislation policy that lawyers need to be aware of covers the period from June to August 2014. It does not consider case law as this is covered in our monthly public procurement case digest. For a summary of the latest cases, see Public procurement case digest (July 2014).

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This is the first in our series of quarterly education update blogs which will enable readers to catch up on the most important cases, issues or developments in education law from May to July 2014.

Please feel free to submit a comment below or send us an Ask query if you have any views on the cases, issues, or legal development that are covered or if you think we have missed something that should be brought to the attention of education law practitioners.

In this post we look at:

  • A case challenging the Secretary of State’s decision to make a failing comprehensive school the subject of an academy order.
  • Recent legislative developments.
  • Government guidance.
  • Consultations and consultation responses.
  • Recent education law developments in Wales. Continue reading