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appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)

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 — 2017

real, from FOI response

100%

Resolved before hearing — 0 (0%) Contested, council lost — 0 (0%) Contested, council won — 3 (100%)

Table covers only cases that reached a defended hearing (3 total: 3 won by LA, 0 for appellant); total appeals registered (including any resolved before hearing) not given.

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Freedom of Information responses

LBC REQUEST - FOI SEND provision

Awaiting classification

Requested by Fraser Knight on 2024-11-01 · answered 2024-11-29 · covers 2019-01-01 to 2024-10-01 (aggregate)

Response letter dated 29 November 2024 (ref CAMS-012-35297908) to a request covering 1 Jan 2019 - 1 Oct 2024. 'Between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024 how many SEND appeals were received by the council?' -- Answer: 280. 'Of these appeal cases decided by tribunal, how many were in favour of the council?' -- Answer: 11. On legal spend: 'The Council manages SEND appeals from within its core service budget. There is no additional spend on legal teams.' (The letter also gives total SEND provision spend by financial year 2019-20 through 2024-25, but that is general SEND budget, not tribunal-specific, so it is omitted here as out of scope.)

Caveat: No breakdown by year, appeal type (refusal to assess/issue/contents/placement), or outcome category beyond the single 'in favour of council' figure (11) is given. It is not stated how many of the 280 appeals received were actually decided by tribunal in total (as opposed to withdrawn, conceded, or still pending), so the relationship between 11 and 280 is not fully specified by the council.

First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability)

Partially successful

Requested by Michael Gaffney on 2020-01-29 · answered 2020-03-26 · covers 2017, 2018, 2019

Response letter dated 26 March 2020 (ref CAMS-012-34218170-9) gives a table headed Year / Tribunals defended / Tribunal won (ruled in favour of LA) / Tribunal ruled in favour of appellant: 2017 -- 3 defended, 3 won by LA, 0 for appellant. 2018 -- 0 defended, 0 won, 0 for appellant. 2019 -- 2 defended, 1 won by LA, 1 for appellant. On legal costs: 'This is covered from within the core budget of the SEN team and is not separated out for Tribunal work.'