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Lancashire County Council

Data available

North West

334

appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)

472

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

69.7%

17.8%

10.8%

Resolved before hearing — 329 (69.7%) Contested, council lost — 84 (17.8%) Contested, council won — 51 (10.8%) Partially split — 8 (1.7%)

This council's own answer doesn't give a usable outcome breakdown. This estimate applies the pooled outcome rate from other North West councils with real reported figures to this council's own real, officially-published appeal volume for 2025 (472 appeals) — see how estimates work.

Freedom of Information responses

First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability)

Partially successful

Requested by Michael Gaffney on 2020-01-31 · answered 2020-02-25 · covers 2017, 2018, 2019

Cases defended in first-tier tribunal: 2017 - 20, 2018 - 24, 2019 - 25. Cases the LA won: 2017 - 7, 2018 - 4, 2019 - 5. Legal costs: 'not held in any reportable format... to calculate the costs for defending cases at tribunals in any given year would necessitate a manual trawl of the case files... exceed the limit of £450' (refused under s.12 FOIA).

Caveat: Legal cost breakdown refused under the section 12 (cost limit) exemption. Lancashire County Council covers the two-tier districts of the county (Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire) — it does not cover Blackburn with Darwen or Blackpool, which are separate unitary authorities logged individually in this catalogue.