Gurvinder Samra > Shoosmiths LLP > Birmingham, England > Lawyer Profile

Gurvinder Samra

+443700864119 guv.samra@shoosmiths.co.uk View profile View profile

Work Department

Education

Position

Guv is a senior associate specialising in assisting parents of children and young people with special educational needs.

Her team secures the provision of services to be funded by local authorities for children and young adults with additional needs by way of EHC plans. The types of services that the education team is able to secure for the children and young people that they represent include therapies such as physiotherapy, 1:1 teaching assistance and specialist placements.

Guv has regularly secured independent specialist placements worth over £70,000 a year at the local authorities’ expense by way of SEND appeal and through pre appeal negotiations.

Guv conducts seminars informing parents of their legal rights in respect of EHC plans and how they can enforce them.

She has links to local charities whom she regularly visits to assist parents of children with SEN. Guv regularly works with personal injury and clinical negligence solicitors, court of protection deputies and case managers, where, she is instructed on SEND appeals and pre appeal work achieving favourable outcomes within agreed fee budgets.