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Trust Director
Beth joined the Board in July 2024.
Beth is a solicitor and has specialised in the field of education law since 1998, primarily advising parents of children with special educational needs. Initially, Beth worked for a leading education law firm before joining the Disability Rights Commission (DRC) as its principal education lawyer, where she had responsibility for conducting a number of ground-breaking disability discrimination cases and led work on drafting codes of practice on post-16 education and on general qualifications bodies. Beth also drafted the DRC’s guidance for parents on making claims under the Disability Discrimination Act (as was). Beth has also worked with IPSEA (a national charity providing advice, support and representation to parents of children with SEN and disabilities), where she had overall responsibility for volunteer recruitment, training and legal support, and for managing IPSEA’s team of discrimination law advisers.
As a freelance equality consultant, Beth worked with the Law Society, specialist advocacy organisations and with the Equality and Human Rights Commission, for whom she acted as an adviser and drafter in relation to a range of education-related guidance produced to coincide with the commencement of the education provisions of the Equality Act 2010.
More recently, Beth worked for one of the largest claimant education law firms in the country. However, she no longer practices as a solicitor, having instead set up her own business focused on assisting families with education law disputes by offering specialist, high quality advice on all aspects of education law and related social care issues.
Beth has previously been a school governor at two state schools: her own children’s primary school (where she was chair of governors), and a large secondary school in Northwich.