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Whilst the continued expansion of the educational services market will present opportunities to make savings, schools and academies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate appropriate due diligence has been carried out in relation to their contracts. Whether it is straightforward terms and conditions of sale, complex outsourcing projects or partnership agreements, ensuring your school is aware of the commercial risks is critical to protecting your school, your reputation and your budget.
Our expert team can advise on a wide range of contractual issues including helping you to identify and manage risk in commercial contracts, negotiate key terms or look at debt recovery. We provide a quality service to fit your needs, whether it is a high-level review on terms and conditions or supporting you through detailed negotiations on a high value contract. We help you put in place robust, commercially-focused agreements that protect you and your school.
Supporting schools in terms of a wide range of contractual advice including procurement, drafting contractual terms, assisting clients with risk assessments of contractual terms with suppliers.
Sharing experience of common commercial issues with suppliers.
Partnership agreements assisting schools in putting together partnership agreements to support collaborative and commercial activities.
Advising on all contracts from simple terms of conditions all the way through to outsourcing agreements.
Protecting your intellectual property - providing advice on trademarks, copyright and other intellectual property issues.
Supporting with litigation including debt recovery.
With Covid-19 expected to place a substantial burden on statutory services and school closures being put into effect, the Government has now issued guidance on continued protection of this group.
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We have recently encountered a number of situations where academies have found themselves liable to large sums of money after their commercial contracts with catering providers have exposed them to reimburse payments.
On 6 April 2020 the law is changing with regard to contracts and statements of particulars – specifically whom they apply to and what information needs to be included in them.
In the first of what we hope will become a regular feature in Be Connected, Nick MacKenzie reviews what’s on the horizon for the education sector and briefly shares with you a number of themes.
Sources say this is 'a very helpful team that's willing to go the extra mile.'
Browne Jacobson LLP provides ‘a responsive and knowledgeable service with a large enough team to cover all key issues’.
A highly ambitious organisation with a superb corporate image, excellent client support and good commercial awareness.
Good, not just with the law, but also empathetic to our aims. They are on the button, prompt and nice to deal with, which is an added bonus.
Excellent educational law knowledge.
For some time the Academies Financial Handbook has restricted Academy Trusts in how much they could pay for goods or services purchased from a 'related party' i.e. a person or organisation closely linked to the Academy Trust.
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The DfE has agreed a recommendation made by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee that academy trusts should be forced to apply to the Education and Skills Funding Agency in order to approve ‘related-party transactions’.
If you are thinking of academy conversion and becoming an independently managed, publicly funded school then make sure you use leading education sector lawyers to make your academy conversion a smooth and straightforward process.
Quickcall is our fixed fee annual support service provides you with immediate access to specialist advice when you need it most.
Browne Jacobson provides a range of HR Services for schools and academies tailored specifically to the needs of your school.
Whilst schools will be familiar with the traditional governor compliance issues, they may need support.
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