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Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council

Data available

North West

101
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
168
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
69.6%
17.9%
10.7%
Resolved before hearing — 117 (69.6%) Contested, council lost — 30 (17.9%) Contested, council won — 18 (10.7%) Partially split — 3 (1.8%)

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 (168 appeals) — see how estimates work.

Freedom of Information responses

Awaiting classification
Requested by Fraser Knight on 2024-11-01 · answered 2024-11-29 · covers 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
By year — Appeals / Tribunal / In Favour of LA: 2019: 59 / <5 / <5. 2020: 74 / <5 / <5. 2021: 57 / <5 / <5. 2022: 94 / <5 / <5. 2023: 211 / 32 / <5. 2024: 313 / 43 / <5. SEND provision (High Needs Block) spend 1/1/19-1/10/24: £265,935k. Legal team spend: £7,612.50.
Caveat: Small counts (under 5) suppressed as '<5', likely to avoid identifying individuals. 'Appeals' appears to be appeals received in that year, not necessarily decided in that year.
Requested by Tina Bailey on 2024-08-28 · answered 2024-09-25 · covers 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23, 2023/24
Table for Q6/6A/6B (appeals per year / tribunal-related figure / tribunals won), as transcribed from a garbled HTML-to-text table: '2018/19 65 5 Less than 5; 2019/20 72 5 Less than 5; 2020/21 51 11 9; 2021/22 83 12 9; 2022/23 138 12 12; 2023/24 226 47 33' with column headers appearing as 'Tribunals / Mediations / Tribunals Won'.
Caveat: The exact mapping of the three numeric columns to appeals/mediations/tribunals-won is ambiguous due to how the original HTML table linearised into plain text; recommend checking the original response on the request page before using these figures. Small counts under 5 suppressed as 'Less than 5'.