Boy with ADHD Not Excluded from London Independent School Case Study

How our legal team came up with a plan to help

We helped the family to come up with a plan.

Dan Rosenberg initially ghost wrote the client’s correspondence with the school, and advised the parents on how to deal with meetings with the head teacher. This resulted in the proposed withdrawal/threat of exclusion being put briefly on hold while the situation was monitored.

The school again sought to push ahead with forcing the boy out of the school. At this stage Solicitor Dan Rosenberg wrote to the school directly on the family’s behalf setting out our concern that the reasonable adjustments had not been made (the same ones that the parents had previously asked for) and our concern that equality legislation was being breached.

Dan wrote the letter in such a way so as to seek to maintain a positive relationship with the school. The school’s lawyers became involved, and a further agreement was reached whereby the situation was to be reviewed again towards the end of the academic year.

He now has the best school report ever

With more understanding and measures put in place by the school, together with further help that the parents had put in themselves at home for their son, the situation at school stabilised and their son managed to successfully complete the year and come back next September.

By the time of the next school report, when our case had been long since closed, we received a phone call from the boy’s mother informing us that “all was well” and that her son had had the best school report that he had ever had. The relationship with the school was kept positive throughout the process.

Dan Rosenberg is a Partner and Public Law Solicitor specialising in Public Law, Education Law, Community Care and Judicial Review.

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