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Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Answered — unclearWest Midlands
41
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
48
appeals registered, 2025 (official DfE figure)
Answered — unclear. A request was made and answered, but this pass could not determine whether it contains usable tribunal figures.
Estimated outcome breakdown
Estimated, not reported
Resolved before hearing — 35 (72.9%)
Contested, council lost — 9 (18.8%)
Contested, council won — 2 (4.2%)
Partially split — 2 (4.2%)
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 (48 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Successful (WhatDoTheyKnow site tag; no figures were actually disclosed on this thread)
No figures were ever released on this thread. The council failed to respond for over four months; when a new FOI officer (Joyce Gardner) resurfaced the request on 27 Apr / 1 May 2023 and offered to complete it, the requester replied on 5 May 2023 that she 'no longer need[ed] this information', and the request was closed with no data provided.
Caveat: This specific thread produced no usable figures. A broader body-level search (query terms: tribunal, appeals, conceded, won, lost, outcome) turned up no other SEND-tribunal-outcome FOI request for Sandwell; this remains a genuine, confirmed data gap for the council.
Re-use terms stated by the council: Standard footer used on the closing message referenced: 'protected by copyright laws... private study, non-commercial research or news reporting... Open Government Licence... Open Parliament Licence.'