Schools: Legal Costs
Commons · Question 28913 · Tabled 5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education · Official record
Answered 14 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Damian Hinds
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
Answered by Catherine McKinnell, 14 Feb 2025
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 ...