Machela Boampong

Machela joined Tees in July 2024, as a solicitor specialising in education law. She began her career as a paralegal in the Legal Aid team at Coram Children’s Legal Centre’s Child Law Advice Service, advising families on child, family, and education law through both telephone advice and casework. She later obtained Legal Aid Supervisor status and, as a senior paralegal, formally supervised and trained junior paralegals, overseeing a team of three.

Machela has been involved in innovative and impactful work throughout her career, including a pilot project with Coram and the Clement James Centre addressing school exclusions among children living near Grenfell. The project resulted in a published article in Children and Young People Now and evolved into a consultation service supporting local families at risk of exclusion, with successful outcomes enabling children to reintegrate into education.

Delivering what you really need 

Machela has extensive experience advising parents and carers of children and young people on a wide range of matters including special educational needs matters, EHC Needs Assessments, Education, Health and Care Plans, statutory provision, and First-tier Tribunal appeals, disability discrimination claims in the First-tier Tribunal,  judicial review challenges, admission appeals, school exclusions, home-to-school transport, complaints, and safeguarding concerns.