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Team members have a holistic approach to the securing of children's needs through law. We bring together expertise in the diffuse areas of law relevant to the rights of the child. We undertake a wide range of advisory and advocacy work involving: - Special educational needs, all aspects including advice on and help with assessments,identification of educational needs, appeals to and from the SENDIST, judicial review challenges e.g. on delay, enforcement of children's entitlement to statemented SEN provision;
- Care: provision for looked after children and previously looked after children, in family and judicial review courts, for example the adequacy of pathway plans;
- Children in custody:access to care, support and education, legal issues for children and young people in, and leaving, custody;
- Children subject to immigration controls: access to care and education ( some members of the team practice in both immigration and children's public law);
- School admissions: including judicial review and discrimination challenges to decisions of Admissions Appeal Panels;
- Exclusions: from schools, colleges and universities, including judicial review challenges to decisions of governing bodies and Independent Appeal Panels;
- Human Rights: issues including intervention by the Secretary of State under Education Act powers;
- Other Public Law: claims to enforce children's rights to local authority services;
- Discrimination: on grounds of disability, sex, race, sexual identity or religion in the context of the education system (including in schools, colleges and universities);
- Employment: issues that are specific to the education field in both maintained and independent schools;
- Mandatory and discretionary grants: including for EEA citizens; and
- Scrutiny of Care Plans: both interim and final, within public law Children Act proceedings to consider Personal Education Plans [PEPs] and Leaving Care packages, including young people who leave care who are subject to immigration control.
Members of our team also work with large children's NGOS and other organisations, such as advising UNICEF and Save the Children on the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The team's publications include the book ‘Children and the Human Rights Act' by Sandhya Drew. Further Information Further information about individual members of our Education and Children's Public Law team can be obtained using the links to the right. You can also contact our clerks directly: Useful links (in alphabetical order) Recent news
- Sandhya Drew to Speak at Joint Meeting of UNICEF, UNHCR & UKBA
Sandhya Drew is to speak at a joint meeting between UNICEF, UNHCR and the UKBA on the best interests of the child in a migration context.
19 May 2009 - Jude Bunting Joins Tooks
We are pleased to announce that Jude Bunting has accepted an offer to become a member of Tooks Chambers. Jude joins our Actions Against the Police & Inquests; Education & Children's Public law; Employment & Equality and Public Law teams.
10 October 2008
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