Katie Michelon

Senior Associate, Browne Jacobson

Katie is a Senior Associate in the education team at Browne Jacobson. She advises schools and academies on a wide range of education law issues including safeguarding, exclusions, admissions, governance and parental complaints. She also specialises in school intervention work, delivering strategic advice to schools and academies who may be vulnerable to formal intervention measures from their local authority or the Secretary of State. Katie has advised schools and academy trusts across the country on academy conversions under the Academies Act 2010. She now focuses largely on group and specialist projects, working with a number of multi-academy trusts on their expansion, including academy merger and re-brokerage projects. Katie also regularly delivers training and webinars to school leaders on matters such as safeguarding, exclusions and governance.

Contributed to

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Equality Act 2010—discrimination in schools

Practice notes

This Practice Note discusses the sections of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA 2010) which activate prohibitions on discrimination in schools, the different types of discrimination including sex, race, religion or belief, age, marriage or civil partnership and disability, and the exceptions that may apply. It notes that the Equality Act 2010 (Specific Duties and Public Authorities) Regulations 2017, SI 2017/353 require public authorities with education functions to publish information annually to demonstrate their compliance with the public sector equality duty under EqA 2010, s 149.

Local Government

Ofsted, failing schools and intervention

Practice notes

This Practice Note sets out the legislative sources of Ofsted’s administrative arrangements and areas of endeavour, the frequency and nature of school inspections, the different categories of unsatisfactory schools in England, and the steps that a local authority may have to follow under the Education and Inspections Act 2006 if one of its schools is found to be unsatisfactory.

Local Government

Safeguarding children in schools (England)

Practice notes

This Practice Note considers the safeguarding of children in English schools. It explains what safeguarding is, who has responsibility for safeguarding, interagency co-operation, safer recruitment as well as providing guidance on how to deal with allegations against staff members, safeguarding in the context of other specific statutory duties such as female genital mutilation, the prevent duty as well as providing practical guidance for assessing safeguarding risks.

Local Government