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Rosa Thomas

Year of Call: 2023
Email Address: [email protected]
Telephone: 020 7583 8055

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Clerk Details

  • Clerk Name: Matthew Scanlan
  • Clerk Telephone: 020 7583 8055
  • Clerk Email: [email protected]

Education

Rosa Thomas appears regularly for parents, young people, Local Authorities and schools in the First-tier Tribunal.

Rosa has acted or advised in a broad range of education law matters, including:

  • Appeals to the SEND Tribunal on the content of EHC Plans
  • Discrimination claims in the First-tier Tribunal
  • Judicial Review claims
  • Independent Review Panels for School Exclusions
  • Claims for non-payment of independent school fees

Some recent examples include:

  • Successfully representing a child with ASD in his section B and F Appeal enabling a detailed incremental transition plan, including transport to his residential placement, to be written into section F of the EHCP.
  • Successfully representing a twenty-two-year-old young person in his “cease to maintain” appeal in a matter that also concerned whether the placement in question was a school within the meaning of the law.
  • Successfully representing a Local Authority seeking to resist provision being made outside of school through an extensive EOTIS package including an ABA model.
  • Rosa advises on judicial review matters and recently appeared in the High Court as junior counsel in the reported case of The King (on the application of (1) LM and (2) AM) v An Academy Trust [2024] EWHC 2267 (Admin).

Rosa has recently delivered training on school exclusions, school admissions, and addressing disability discrimination in schools.

Before coming to the Bar Rosa was a volunteer representative with the Schools Exclusion Project and represented parents at Governors’ Disciplinary Committees and Independent Review Panels to seek the reinstatement of excluded students.

  • Articles

    • Provision in the home does have a place in EHC Plans (London Borough of Camden v KT)

      23rd Nov 2023

      Rosa Thomas writes for LexisNexis titled Provision in the home does have a place in EHC Plans (London Borough of Camden v KT)

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