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Book review: Education Law and Practice (4th Edition)

09 June 2017
Issue: 7749 / Categories: Features , Public , Child law
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“ The book is written for lawyers & advisers but in such a way that anyone could find it useful”

Authors: John Ford, Mary Hughes, Karen May, Marian Shaughnessy & Helen Gill
Publisher: Jordan Publishing
ISBN: 9781784732257
Price: £75

This central text in the field of education law has usefully been updated for the fourth edition. First published by the Legal Action Group, it retains the feel of an accessible guide to the law with a significant emphasis upon the provision of practice advice, policy framing, and advising individual clients.

Areas of interest

The book deals with all of the most common areas of dispute in education law: admissions, exclusions, special educational needs, attendance, complaints, discrimination and information law issues. There is a useful chapter on the ‘key players’, that is, institutions such as the Department for Education and Ofsted, as well as the position of individual actors such as governors, head teachers and parents.

In addition to the statutory issues in education law described above, it addresses the application of

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