Katie Michelon

Partner, Browne Jacobson

Katie is a Partner 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 leads the firm's practice on school intervention and inspection, delivering strategic advice to schools and academies who may be vulnerable to formal intervention measures from their local authority or the Secretary of State and supporting schools with challenging Ofsted inspections. Katie has also 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 education law matters.

Contributed to

2

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