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Legal Service

The Service Offer

Subscription Services  Buy as You Need Services

Schools Legal Hotline 01926 412361 schoolenquiries@warwickshire.gov.uk

When you need legal advice, you want pragmatic support from a team that understands you and can provide advice, on demand, whatever your requirement may be.  Warwickshire’s in house legal team of over 90 enthusiastic professional staff provides comprehensive legal advice to the Council, external clients as well as schools and academies covering a wide variety of legal disciplines.  We are well regarded by our clients for our “can do” approach, consistently achieving over 95% in customer satisfaction surveys. 

Benefits

  • Immediate legal advice and guidance via our Legal Hotline.
  • Support to navigate the specialist law that relates to schools, removing the stress and anxiety of complex legal cases from you.  
  • A specialist team which is large enough to provide advice across all areas of law.
  • Flexible and cost-controlled services without compromise on quality.

Why Buy our Service

Legal issues can take up a great deal of time for school leaders and can be a significant cause of stress and anxiety when they arise. We know that as an academy/MAT you have an enhanced need for robust and responsive legal advice with a commercial edge.  As well as routine legal advice, you may come across more complex matters that take time and specialist support to resolve.  Ensuring you have access to the right legal advice at any time is important.  

The Effectiveness of our Service

  • Our service provides excellent value for money – the cost of engaging external legal support can be over three times as expensive as our subscription hourly rate.
  • We hold the Law Society’s LEXCEL accreditation
  • 95% customer satisfaction. 

Our Specialisms

  • School and education
  • Employment law
  • Property, planning and construction
  • Commercial, procurement and contracts
  • Family law
  • Safeguarding
  • Data protection and FOI

Tailored Services

Our services are flexible and can be tailored to meet your individual needs – please contact us if you would like to discuss arranging a tailored package for your academy.