Elizabeth Fortin is a solicitor in
the Education Team and Information Law Team at Stone King, and advises trust
schools (including special schools) on their legal obligations relating to
their day-to-day operations. She specialises in the Equality Act and SEN, and
also UK-GDPR/data protection. She also advises on a range of other operational
issues, including exclusions and safeguarding. Elizabeth qualified as a
solicitor for an international law firm in 2001, but subsequently went back
into academia and latterly worked with policy-makers and parliament, NGOs and
charities, and universities and other researchers.