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appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)

appeals registered, 2025 (official DfE figure)

20.4

appeals per 1,000 children with an EHC plan, 2025 (4,555 EHC plans, Jan 2025)

Answered — document pending. A council has confirmed answering this question, but the figures were supplied as a PDF, Word or Excel attachment that could not be read automatically. The source is linked below — the answer exists, it just hasn't been transcribed yet.

Thinking about appealing, or partway through it? These are free, independent sources of advice — not run by this site, and not run by any council.

Tower Hamlets Parents and Young People Information Advice and Support Service — this council's own free SEND information, advice and support service. Every council is legally required to fund one, at arm's length from itself · 020 7364 6489.
IPSEA — Free, independent legal advice on SEN law — including EHC plans and tribunal appeals.
SOS!SEN — Free helpline and 1:1 advice specifically on preparing a SEND tribunal appeal.
Coram Children's Legal Centre — Free education law advice line, including SEN appeals and EHC plan reviews.
GOV.UK: appeal an EHC plan decision — The official government guide to the appeals process itself — who can appeal, mediation, costs.

Estimated outcome breakdown

Estimated, not reported

72%

18.3%

Resolved before hearing — 67 (72%) Contested, council lost — 17 (18.3%) Contested, council won — 5 (5.4%) Partially split — 4 (4.3%)

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 (93 appeals) — see how estimates work.

Freedom of Information responses

Levels of demand, supply and parent challenge re: SEND provision in the borough

Awaiting classification

Requested by Joel M Benjamin on 2024-12-30 · answered 2025-03-10 · covers 2019-2024 (financial years, per template)

No figures extracted yet for this response — see the source thread directly.

Caveat: Attachment confirmed to exist but not machine-readable: Attachment ('Response exempt and exceeds appropriate limit.pdf', 2 pages) downloaded and read successfully — the document itself is fully legible, but it is a blanket s.12 refusal notice containing no substantive tribunal data. This is a genuine full refusal by the council, not a retrieval failure on this pass; a fresh, narrower FOI request would be needed to get real figures from Tower Hamlets.. Needs manual retrieval, not necessarily a fresh FOI.