Staffordshire County Council

Full outcome-type breakdown by financial year (Apr-Mar). resolved_before_hearing = consent order issued (58) + conceded by the local authority (26) + appeal withdrawn by parents (15) = 99. contested_and_council_lost = 'Appeal upheld in favour of parents / allowed in part' (43) -- council's own column COMBINES a clean loss with a partial split, so partially_split is left null here rather than double-counted. contested_and_council_won = 'Appeal dismissed/struck out' (5). A further 'Not recorded/appeal still in progress' bucket (9) is not mapped to any of the 5 fields (pending/unknown status). All figures reconcile exactly against the council's own stated total: 99+43+5+9=156=156.

Caveat: 'Conceded'/'rescinded' figures explicitly exclude appeals withdrawn by parents and consent orders, so on their own they understate the total rate of pre-hearing LA concessions in the broader sense used elsewhere (e.g. compare against Andrew Hall's later national-batch definition, which does include withdrawals following an LA concession). 2022 figures are necessarily a partial year, since the response is dated May 2022.

Caveat: The richest single dataset found for the whole region: a full outcome-type breakdown (not just won/lost) by financial year across four consecutive years, cross-checked against a stated total of 1,160 appeals. The very high 'not recorded/in progress' figure for 2024/25 (178 of 398, i.e. 45%) reflects that many 2024/25 appeals had not yet reached a recorded outcome at the time of the April 2025 response — treat 2024/25 outcome proportions as provisional relative to the earlier, more complete years. Requester reported non-receipt on 18 Apr 2025 and the council re-sent the identical content as an attachment on 22 Apr 2025; WhatDoTheyKnow has not yet classified the thread's outcome status. A separate, generically-titled 'SEND Information Request' thread by the same requester (https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/send_information_request) covers SEND mediation volumes only (requests raised/fulfilled-within-30-days/refused) — no tribunal outcome data — and is intentionally not logged as a separate entry here since it falls outside this catalogue's scope.