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Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

Data available

North East

133
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
158
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.

Structured outcome breakdown

Structured breakdown — 2019
real, from FOI response

No outcome breakdown available.

appeals_registered = 'Appeals received by year' (appeals RECEIVED that year, not necessarily decided that year, per council's own framing). Of appeals decided by tribunal 'in favour of the council', the council separately itemises 'fully upheld' (0, mapped to contested_and_council_won) and 'partly upheld' (0, mapped to partially_split, since the source itself separates partial outcomes from clean wins here even though both are nominally 'in favour of the council'). No 'not in favour of council' or resolved-before-hearing figures are given anywhere in this response, so those remain null -- the large gap between appeals received and upheld+partial cases is not explained. NOTE: this year's contribution is part of a batch-level reconciliation mismatch -- see council_level_notes.

Freedom of Information responses

Requested by Fraser Knight on 2024-11-01 · answered 2024-11-29 · covers 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 (to date)
Appeals received by year: 2024 to date 116; 2023 117; 2022 51; 2021 40; 2020 26; 2019 34; Total 384. 'Of these appeal cases decided by tribunal, how many were in favour of the council?' by year: 2024 to date - 1 fully upheld; 2023 - 1 fully upheld and 1 partly upheld; 2022 - 5 fully upheld and 3 partly upheld; 2021 - 1 partly upheld; 2020 - 0; 2019 - 0; Total - 8 Fully upheld and 4 partly upheld. SEND provision spend 2019/20-2023/24: £155,353,208.67. Legal team spend: £40,360.
Caveat: Figures are appeals RECEIVED in each year, not necessarily decided in that year; 2024 figures are partial (to date of response).
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