Below are a few organisations which have been recommended.  If you have personally worked with any organisations that you could recommend that might be helpful to others, please let us know.

Langley Wellington

Langley Wellington has a very experienced team dedicated specifically to all aspects of education law. The team's success rate in SENDIST Appeals is around 90%.

Partner Robert Love’s particular expertise lies within the area of special educational needsand he has been instructed in many of the high profile cases which have developed education law.

In addition to running a busy and successful department, Robert also lectures on the law relating to special educational needs in special schools across the country. He is the author of an article published in Which School for Special Educational Needs.

Telephone: 01452 555166

www.langleywellington.co.uk

education@langleywellington.co.uk

IPSEA - Independent Panel For Special Education Advice

Who we are

IPSEA is a registered charity (established in 1983) offering free and independent advice to parents of children with special educational needs in England and Wales on:

• local authorities’ legal duties to assess and provide for children with special educational needs;
• exclusions of children with special needs/disabilities;
• actions or inaction by local authorities and/or schools which discriminate against children with disabilities.

IPSEA is a volunteer-based organisation and many of the volunteers providing telephone advice and Tribunal support are themselves parents of children with special educational needs who have been helped by IPSEA in the past.

What we do

IPSEA’s aims are

• to help ensure that all children with special educational needs receive the special educational provision to which they are legally entitled;
• to help ensure that the views of parents/carers are taken fully into account when their children’s needs are assessed and decisions are made about their special education provision;
• to help to prevent or remedy discrimination by local authorities or schools against children on the grounds of their disability.

Whilst we help all families that come to us for advice, we target information about our services to disadvantaged families so that we can concentrate our support on parents/carers who may be less confident and/or less able to fight for their children’s legal entitlement to special educational provision and not to be discriminated against

www.ipsea.org

Advice line: 0800 0184016
Contact IPSEA: 01394 384711