It means parents or young people seeking redress over issues ranging from failure to protect a child from bullying to not diagnosing and treating dyslexia could be left with nowhere to turn.
The warning follows the failure of a recent consultation document on civil legal aid to address public funding of educational damage claims.
The report by the Legal Services Commission said that these claims have "a high cost and low success rate and cannot be considered as a priority for public funding".
It said there was a strong case for restricting funding claims for historical cases, such as someone alleging they received a poor standard of education many years ago.
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