Kensington and Chelsea
London
26
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
38
appeals registered, 2025 (official DfE figure)
46.4
appeals per 1,000 children with an EHC plan, 2025 (819 EHC plans, Jan 2025)
Answered — document pending. A council has confirmed answering this question, but the figures were supplied as a PDF, Word or Excel attachment that could not be read automatically. The source is linked below — the answer exists, it just hasn't been transcribed yet.
Thinking about appealing, or partway through it? These are free, independent sources of advice — not run by this site, and not run by any council.
- Full of Life IASS — this council's own free SEND information, advice and support service. Every council is legally required to fund one, at arm's length from itself · 0208 960 9064.
- IPSEA — Free, independent legal advice on SEN law — including EHC plans and tribunal appeals.
- SOS!SEN — Free helpline and 1:1 advice specifically on preparing a SEND tribunal appeal.
- Coram Children's Legal Centre — Free education law advice line, including SEN appeals and EHC plan reviews.
- GOV.UK: appeal an EHC plan decision — The official government guide to the appeals process itself — who can appeal, mediation, costs.
Estimated outcome breakdown
Estimated, not reported
Resolved before hearing — 28 (71.8%)
Contested, council lost — 7 (17.9%)
Contested, council won — 2 (5.1%)
Partially split — 2 (5.1%)
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 (38 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Partially successful
No figures extracted yet for this response — see the source thread directly.
Caveat: Attachment confirmed to exist but not machine-readable: Downloaded and read the PDF in full (4 pages) via the Read tool. It is a formal refusal notice under section 17 FOIA, not a data disclosure — no Kensington & Chelsea-specific tribunal appeal counts, outcomes, or decision-type breakdown are contained in the document. This genuinely needs a fresh, narrower FOI request (or manual retrieval from the national tribunal statistics filtered to this LA) rather than document retrieval.. Needs manual retrieval, not necessarily a fresh FOI.