By Andrea Squires

Schools are a hub of activity for busy parents and carers, whether it involves pickups and drop offs, attending concerts, sporting events or parents’ evenings.

However, the recent story involving parents being ‘banned’ from attending sports days by the Merton School Sport Partnership has brought into focus the rights and powers a school has to prevent visitors from entering the school site.

The starting point is that entering onto school land without consent is a trespass of land.

However, the law assumes that people with a legitimate reason for entering onto the site have permission from the owner to access the land. This is commonly referred to as an implied licence.

This permission can be withdrawn by notice, and schools can........

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