by admin6989 | 2 Apr, 2022 | Disability, Employment Law, SEN
By Mandy Aulak and Sean Kennedy, Talem Law. As a law firm which specialises in employment and special educational needs, we are instructed to support many disabled people who are in difficulty. Almost without exception, the problems experienced relate to a failure to...
by admin6989 | 22 Mar, 2022 | Disability, SEN
Question: Following a review meeting, do the statutory deadlines have to be adhered to if a local authority wants to amend an EHCp? Yes, said Mrs Justice Foster in the case of L & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v Devon County Council [2022] EWHC 493 (Admin)...
by admin6989 | 11 Jan, 2022 | SEN
This guidance from the Department of Education from April 2019 describes elective home education as “a term used to describe a choice by parents to provide education for their children at home or in some other way they desire, instead of sending them ...
by admin6989 | 2 Sep, 2021 | Disability, Employment Law, SEN
Q. Is the way a remote hearing conducted unfair if it fails to take account of the effects of a person’s impairments? A. Possibly, according to Upper Tribunal Judge Ward in TC and BW v LB Islington [2021] UKUT 196 (AAC) The appellants, TC and BW, are the parents of B....
by admin6989 | 10 Apr, 2021 | Disability, Employment Law, SEN
When an employer is making reasonable adjustments for a disabled person, do they need to consider modifications to physical features and providing auxiliary aids as well as adjusting practices and procedures? Of course is the answer, as was recently confirmed in Mr...
by admin6989 | 25 Sep, 2020 | SEN
Given what parents and others have had to deal with during the pandemic, many people may have missed the Judgement in AD & Ors, R (On the Application Of) v London Borough of Hackney [2020] EWCA Civ 518. This was an appeal of a decision of a judicial review in...
