Teachers at one of the region’s leading schools have hired a leading lawyer and Prospective MP for Wirral West to help them have their suspended head reinstated.

Staff at Calday Grange Grammar School have instructed David Kirwan to act on their behalf – six months after Head Andrew Hall was suspended by the Board of Governors.

Since then, staff at the school have been prohibited from making contact with Mr Hall amid rumours that an investigation including a substantial report cleared him of any wrongdoing.

Teachers say the impending departure of Acting Head Mike Skelly in May will cause Wirral’s oldest surviving grammar school to be placed in further limbo with summer GCSE and A-level examinations looming.

David Kirwan, Senior Partner at Kirwans Solicitors, said: “It is quite simply staggering that a school with such a wonderful reputation and rich history could have been allowed to descend into such chaos.

“This power struggle must have caused untold stress to Mr Hall, the teachers, other members of staff, many hundreds of parents and, most critically of all, the children who attend Calday Grange.

“It is simply unacceptable that such uncertainty should have been allowed to drag on for such a length of time.”

Mr Kirwan, who is standing as Prospective MP for Wirral West, said he believed there was a strong case for the granting of a Judicial Review to challenge the decision to suspend Mr Hall.

He added: “The governors owe it to the staff, parents and pupils to lift the cloak of secrecy surrounding the ongoing suspension of Mr Hall, especially amid rumours that the investigation into the matter exonerated the Head some three months ago.”

One teacher at the school said: “Calday Grange Grammar School needs the cloud lifting from it. It was readily apparent from the outset that students, staff and parents wanted Mr Hall to be reinstated and cleared of any allegations of wrongdoing.”