Insights: Further & Higher Education

Our employment law specialists who work closely with schools and our education clients, update you on the latest developments in employment law in the education sector over the last turbulent year.

A 12-year-old girl who claimed that wearing a face mask in school could cause long-term physical and mental health problems has lost her high court battle.

With schools well and truly back open and the national COVID-19 vaccination programme rollout working its way down the age groups, schools may be starting to turn their minds to the question of their staff being vaccinated.

Since 4 November 2020 public sector exit payments have been capped at £95,000. On 12 February 2021 the government issued a Treasury Direction which removed the cap and new legislation implemented on 19 March 2021 formally revoked the cap.

Ward Hadaway has teamed up with the University of York Law School to support postgraduate law students offering free legal advice to start-up businesses across the North.

The Prime Minister's announcement of school closures from Friday will inevitably raise a number of issues.

Welcome to Insight Education, our regular newsletter for those working in the education sector. We hope you will find this a useful summary of latest developments in schools, further and higher education and the training and apprenticeships arena.

Ward Hadaway has been re-appointed as the legal advisors to the Co-op Academies Trust.

The academic and research sector faces a growing challenge due to skills shortages, particularly in the context of Brexit uncertainty. The Government announced a series of reforms to take effect from Autumn this year to help mitigate the effects of the sector's ability to attract and retain highly skilled academics and researchers from outside of the European Economic Area (EEA).