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Call our Abuse Claims Solicitors for free initial legal advice. You might be eligible for Legal Aid or a No Win, No Fee agreement.
No child should feel unsafe in school or at risk of abuse. Sadly, abuse in schools can and does happen, and it can leave victims feeling too afraid to speak out.
Our Solicitors have a huge amount of experience helping people who have been victims of child abuse get the justice they deserve. We’ve helped survivors of child abuse get justice and compensation after they took the brave step of coming forward about their abuse. No matter how long ago the abuse took place, it’s never too late to get closure.
Get in touch with our friendly and compassionate team for a free, confidential, no obligation case assessment.
We're rated‘Excellent’The first thing you should do is report your, or your child’s, abuse to the police. We understand this is a difficult step and we can help guide you through this. If you have reason to believe that someone working in a school is abusing children, you should report these concerns to the police as well.
Abuse in schools can happen in different ways. For example:
Often abusers are in a position of trust and power, for example a teacher or another staff member, but victims can also be abused by another student.
Seeking compensation will not take away what has happened but it can help secure your future access to treatment should it be needed and provide a sense of justice over the abuser, and in this case, the school who should have kept you or your child safe.
Once you have decided you’d like to take action and seek justice, either against an individual abuser or the school, get in touch.
We need to get the information about what happened. This is part of the initial free, no obligation assessment.
Once we have this information, our specialist team can let you know if we think you have a case which we can help with.
Unfortunately, we are not able to help everyone, but we will be open with you about this.
Once we have assessed your case, we will then start putting together evidence for your case and gathering what we need to get you the compensation and justice you need.
We’ll identify who to bring a claim against. Usually, it’s better to make a claim against an organisation, as they’re legally responsible for protecting children from sexual abuse. For abuse that happened in a state school, the organisation responsible would be the Local Authority. If it was a private school, we would bring a claim against the owners of the school.
If your case is successful, you’ll receive compensation. We’ve been told by some of our clients that while this can’t take away what’s happened to them, it can help them get a sense of closure and go some way in making sure this doesn’t happen to anyone else.
Our Abuse Team have over 30 years of experience helping survivors of abuse, so you can be confident that your case is in the right hands
As ‘Open Lawyers’, we’ll speak to you in straightforward language and keep you up to date throughout the process
We’ll handle your case with sensitivity and compassion, and we’ll fight to get you the justice you deserve
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Nathalie Swanick is very caring, open & honest. She handled my case with sensitivity & professionally but also with the human touch. I didn't feel I was just a case number but felt listened to.
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At Simpson Millar we want to help you. We are proud of our track record and the comments from our clients which is at the end of the day why we do the work we do.
Our client was sexually abused by a volunteer when he was a pupil at a boarding school in the 1980s. The abuse began when he was just 7 years old, and despite the abuser being dismissed from the school after a complaint, the abuse continued into adulthood after the abuser got back into contact with our client.
After our client went to the police, the abuser was convicted for a year. We arranged an independent medical assessment for our client, and after seeing the effect the abuse had on him, the owners of the boarding school agreed to pay him £18,500 in compensation.
Your legal costs for a School Abuse Claim can be paid for by:
If you’d like to discuss funding options, get in touch and we’ll help you choose an option that is best for you.
A head teacher at Eton College has praised former pupils for their “extraordinary courage and dignity” after speaking out about the sexual abuse they suffered while studying at the school.
Following investigations by West Mercia Police, eight former teachers have this month appeared in Court to face charges of child cruelty and sexual abuse. They are accused of assaulting, neglecting and ill-treating pupils at Rhydd Court School in Malvern, Worcester between 1979 and 1991.
Over 40 former pupils of Formby High School in Merseyside are claiming to have been sexually abused by their former teacher, Ian Farquharson, who took his own life in 1992. The pupils are bringing a lawsuit against Sefton Council.
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