CCLC has successfully challenged a local authority which left a child with special educational needs out of education for years. CCLC’s Head of Education Law, Qaisar Sheikh, acted for the child in H v London Borough of Hillingdon, instructing Counsel Jake Rylatt of No5 Chambers. Multiple failures to provide education H has complex special educational…
CCLC’s Head of Education Law, Qaisar Sheikh, has been ranked amongst leading solicitors for the second year in Chambers and Partners, in the category of Education Law. Qaisar leads our Education Law Team having worked in this field for the best part of a decade. He is highly experienced in education law, particularly special educational…
Following a successful appeal by Coram Children’s Legal Centre, the Upper Tribunal has provided guidance on how the registration of discrimination claims should be made. In F v Responsible Body of School W [2020] UKUT 112 (AAC), Head of Education Law Qaisar Sheikh acted for the Appellant through his mother. The Appellant is young person…
The Coronavirus Act 2020 has now passed through Parliament and received Royal Assent on 25th March 2020. We previously examined how the draft proposals will impact children with special needs and Education Health and Care Plans (EHC plans) and families going through the appeals process. The information below is intended to update our previous article…
CCLC examines the impact of coronavirus on schools, the Special Educational Needs (SEN) Tribunal and children on EHC plans or who have special educational needs Coram Children’s Legal Centre (CCLC) supports hundreds of families each year in appeals related to special educational needs. In addition our work helps ensure specialist provisions set out in Education…
We are pleased to announce that CCLC’s Qaisar Sheikh has been ranked in leading legal directory Chambers and Partners 2020 in the category of Education Law, alongside other leading solicitors in this area. Chambers and Partners comments: Qaisar Sheikh is well known in the market for his work in various types of cases, particularly EHC…
Coram Children’s Legal Centre has achieved a ranking in leading legal directory ‘Chambers and Partners 2019’ as ‘Recognised Practitioner’ in the category of UK-wide Education: Individuals
This week that more than 8 million pupils go back to school in England. Coram Children’s Legal Centre argues that children’s access to free school meals and schools’ access to funding for disadvantaged pupils should never hinge on immigration status. In May 2018, in response to news coverage in The Guardian which stated that children…
We have published an information page on studying, ‘no study’ conditions and immigration bail. In January 2018, changes were made to the law regarding immigration bail. Anyone without leave to remain to enter will be subject to immigration bail. This includes asylum seekers, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children, undocumented children and young people and care leavers without…
CCLC acted for a young person (AB) in an appeal before the First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability). CCLC were instructed to represent AB in the case of Mr C (on behalf of AB) v X Council. AB appealed against the sections of her Education, Health and Care Plan issues by her local authority relating to…
Evidence from our Child Law Advice Service suggests that the number of children out of school through unlawful exclusions may be significantly higher than officially recorded.
An important judgment in an education case brought by CCLC sets out the law and procedure which should apply when applications for costs are made in the First Tier Tribunal. In the case of MG v Cambridgeshire County Council (SEN) [2017] UKUT 0172 (AAC), CCLC represented the parent of a child with special educational needs…