Partnerships for Schools (PfS) has confirmed the advisers for the Legal Advisory Services Framework which will provide professional support for local authorities as they deliver their Building Schools for the Future (BSF) projects.

There are now 17 law firms on the framework, five more than on the current framework of legal advisers. The 17 firms appointed to the framework are:

• Addleshaw Goddard
• Beachcroft
• Bevan Brittan
• Burges Salmon
• Dickinson Dees
• DLA Piper UK
• Eversheds
• Mills & Reeve
• Nabarro
• Norton Rose
• Pinsent Masons
• Sharpe Pritchard
• TPP Law Limited
• Trowers & Hamlins
• Walker Morris
• Ward Hadaway
• Wragge & Co

Firms on the Legal Advisory Services Framework will be able to offer comprehensive legal support from the pre-procurement through to operational Local Education Partnership phase of BSF programmes.


Tim Byles, Chief Executive of PfS said: "It is now more than four years since PfS launched the adviser frameworks, and over this time we have seen the importance of local authority teams being able to easily access professional support which is committed to the objectives of the BSF programme, whilst also guaranteeing competitive rates and value for taxpayers' money. The Legal Advisory Services Framework will also provide a forum to ensure that good practice is captured and embedded across BSF projects.

"BSF is about much more than simply bricks and mortar, it is an opportunity for schools and local authorities to transform where and how students learn and teachers teach, and to integrate new learning technologies with state-of-the-art buildings and facilities. The advisers on the Legal Advisory Services Framework will be able to bring experience and ideas to complement the skills and knowledge within local authority BSF teams to help them plan for, and deliver, truly inspirational schools of the future."

(CD/JM)