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North Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council

Data available

North East

83
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
67
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
73.1%
17.9%
Resolved before hearing — 49 (73.1%) Contested, council lost — 12 (17.9%) Contested, council won — 3 (4.5%) Partially split — 3 (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 (67 appeals) — see how estimates work.

By decision type

By decision type — 2023
Category (council's own wording)AppealsOverturned
challenged through First-tier Tribunal appeal3937
By decision type — 2024
Category (council's own wording)AppealsOverturned
challenged through First-tier Tribunal appeal1816
By decision type — 2025
Category (council's own wording)AppealsOverturned
challenged through First-tier Tribunal appeal1917

Freedom of Information responses

Requested by Andrew Hall on 2026-04-07 · answered 2026-06-15 · covers 2023, 2024, 2025
Q8 SEND Tribunal appeals and concessions - (a) Total appeals registered: 2023: 95; 2024: 82; 2025: 66. (b) Number conceded by authority before final hearing: 2023: 67; 2024: 58; 2025: 25. Q2 Outcomes of refusal-to-assess challenges - (a) challenged through statutory mediation: 2023: 91; 2024: 40; 2025: 39. (b) challenged through First-tier Tribunal appeal: 2023: 39; 2024: 18; 2025: 19. (c) LA changed position: 'Agree to assess at Mediation' 2023: 33 / 2024: 16 / 2025: 8; 'Conceded at Tribunal' 2023: 30 / 2024: 10 / 2025: 6; 'Ordered by Tribunal' 2023: 7 / 2024: 6 / 2025: 11.
Caveat: Full response also covered EHCP phase-transfer compliance, EP advice timeliness/provenance, complaints and LGSCO decisions, all answered with actual figures (a rare fully-completed response to this 8-question campaign).
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