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Derby City Council
Data availableEast Midlands
190
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
223
appeals registered, 2025 (official DfE figure)
Data available. At least one Freedom of Information response gives real, extractable figures on tribunal appeals or outcomes for this council.
Estimated outcome breakdown
Estimated, not reported
Resolved before hearing — 162 (72.3%)
Contested, council lost — 41 (18.3%)
Contested, council won — 11 (4.9%)
Partially split — 10 (4.5%)
This council's own answer doesn't give a usable outcome breakdown. This estimate applies the pooled England-wide outcome rate (no regional sample was large enough to trust on its own) to this council's own real, officially-published appeal volume for 2025 (223 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Successful
Question asked: number of appeals to SENDIST made in the last year; how many SEND tribunals DCC defended; how many DCC won; how many involved a solicitor/barrister; total solicitor/barrister spend. Council response: 'The Council confirms it holds information that falls within the description of your request which is attached... this request has cost the Council £12.50 to process.' The figures were delivered only as a PDF attachment (FOI554063967 FOI Response.pdf) with no extractable text layer, so the actual figures could not be transcribed in this pass.
Caveat: Both the 'LBC REQUEST - FOI SEND provision' and 'National FOI Request - SEND Performance Comparative Study' campaigns were also sent to Derby City Council but both show as 'Long overdue' (unanswered) on WhatDoTheyKnow, so are not logged as separate entries here.
Re-use terms stated by the council: Any information provided that is owned by the Council is subject to the provisions of the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 and has been made available for re-use under the Open Government Licence (OGL); a request to re-use is not required, but the licence conditions must be met.