Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 28913

Schools: Legal Costs

Tabled: 5 February 2025
Answered: 14 February 2025

Question

Damian Hinds

ConservativeEast Hampshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of trends in the level of funds spent by (a) schools and (b) trusts on legal advice in relation to complaints.

Answer

Catherine McKinnell
Each year, schools receive core funding from the department to cover their expenditures. The funding schools receive is not ringfenced for any specific form of expenditure and it is for each school to determine how this money will be best used to support ...

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