There are some situations where you do not have a right to bring a solicitor. Since it is UK law, and I am not an expert on UK law, not sure about schools. Your solicitor should be able to advise you on this matter.
However, the best starting point is to use a two pronged approach:
1. Sue the school for negligence, discrimination, or on some other basis a solicitor might be able to come up with as a basis for a valid legal claim under UK law. Threats of a lawsuit are much less effective than actually filing suit in court. There is some cost to file, but it gets the other party's attention and forces them to get legal counsel involved, which is likely to result in increased desire from people higher up than your current decision makers to settle the case.
2. Use the court of public opinion. Schools are run by the local administration. The local politicians do not like bad press, as this might be used against them in the next election. Go to the press, and lay out the case (especially helpful AFTER filing a lawsuit against the school and the city officials responsible for supervising the school). There are a lot of press outlets in the UK, and while some might not want to write about it, there will be some newspaper that might be able to make a nice expose story to embarrase the city.
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