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Peterborough City Council
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49
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
48
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 — 1 Jan 2019 - 1 Oct 2024 (aggregate)
real, from FOI response
Resolved before hearing — 0 (0%)
Contested, council lost — 7 (50%)
Contested, council won — 7 (50%)
14 of 119 appeals were heard by Tribunal (7 largely in favour of Appellant = contested_and_council_lost, 7 largely in favour of the LA = contested_and_council_won). Council explicitly states it maps 'Appeal Allowed', 'Appeal partly allowed' and 'Appeal Dismissed' outcomes into this discretionary in-favour-of-LA/in-favour-of-Appellant binary based on 'the nuance of the decision' rather than reporting partly-allowed separately -- so the 7/7 split already absorbs any partial rulings and partially_split is not separately available. Remaining 105 of 119 not heard by tribunal presumably resolved another way (conceded/withdrawn/pending) but this is not stated explicitly, so resolved_before_hearing is left null rather than computed as 119 minus 14.
Freedom of Information responses
SEND spend by financial year: 2018-19 (Jan-Mar) £9,023,810; 2019-20 £27,503,235; 2020-21 £26,369,545; 2021-22 £29,984,959; 2022-23 £34,568,880; 2023-24 £41,902,310; 2024-25 (Apr-Sept) £19,647,627; Grand Total £189,000,364 (includes all Dedicated Schools Grant High Needs Block spend). Legal-team SEND-appeal spend by financial year: 2019-20 £27,126; 2020-21 £41,534; 2021-22 £97,412; 2022-23 £17,544; 2023-24 £22,325; 2024-25 (Apr-Sept) £11,015; Grand Total £216,956 (zero spend Jan-Mar 2019). 'Between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024 how many SEND appeals were received by the council? [Answer:] 119.' 'Of these appeal cases decided by tribunal, how many were in favour of the council? [Answer:] 14 in total have been heard by the Tribunal. Of these, 7 were ordered largely in favour of the Appellant, and 7 largely in favour of the Local Authority.'
Caveat: IMPORTANT PROVENANCE NOTE: this response is filed on WhatDoTheyKnow under an unrelated request title, 'LBC FOI request - Youth Centres and Youth Services' (part of a separate, 175-authority Fraser Knight campaign about council youth centres). Peterborough's FOI team appears to have sent the SEND-provision answer to the wrong request/thread by administrative error — the response text itself opens 'Freedom of Information Act response – ref FOI-202411003814' and directly answers the standard 4-question 'LBC REQUEST - FOI SEND provision' template (matching the Bedford/Norfolk/Essex/Hertfordshire/Luton entries in this file), not the youth-centres questions actually asked in this thread. The correctly-titled 'LBC REQUEST - FOI SEND provision' thread sent to Peterborough on 1 Nov 2024 shows as 'Long overdue' on WhatDoTheyKnow, since the real answer was evidently misdirected here instead. Council's own explicit caveat on its 7/7 in-favour split: 'there is a discretionary element to this reporting, the Tribunal outcomes are recorded as "Appeal Allowed", "Appeal partly allowed" or "Appeal Dismissed." Where the nuance of the decision supports the Local Authority's position then this has been reported as in favour of the LA, where the nuance supports the Appellant preference, this has been reported as in favour of the Appellant.'