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Bury Metropolitan Borough Council
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65
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
53
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.
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.
- Bury SENDIAS 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 · 01706 769 634.
- 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.
Structured outcome breakdown
Structured breakdown — 2018
real, from FOI response
Resolved before hearing — 1 (33.3%)
Contested, council lost — 0 (0%)
Contested, council won — 1 (33.3%)
Partially split — 1 (33.3%)
5 defended: 2 'upheld' (direction ambiguous, left unassigned), 1 'partially upheld', 1 'dismissed' (treated as LA win - 'dismissed' is standard, unambiguous usage unlike 'upheld'), 1 'struck out' (treated as resolved_before_hearing, a procedural termination not a ruling on merits).
Freedom of Information responses
Table: 2017 - 5 defended in SEND Tribunal (4 upheld, 1 partially upheld); legal costs 2 appeals £9,200. 2018 - 5 defended (2 upheld, 1 partially upheld, 1 dismissed, 1 struck out); legal costs 2 appeals £6,100. 2019 - 6 defended (1 dismissed, 5 awaiting hearing or outcome); legal costs 1 appeal £4,500.
Caveat: 'Upheld' here appears to mean the tribunal upheld the LA's original decision (i.e. an LA win), consistent with 'partially upheld' and 'dismissed'/'struck out' as separate categories, but the council did not define the terms explicitly.
Re-use terms stated by the council: 'The supply of information in response to a Freedom of Information request does not confer an automatic right to re-use the information. Under UK copyright law you can use any information supplied for the purpose of private study and non-commercial research without requiring permission... For other forms of re-use, for example publishing the information, you would need the permissions of the organisation or the person who owns the copyright... you can re-use the information under the Open Government Licence.' Cost of dealing with the request stated as £25.00.
Partially successful
Question 6/6A/6B ('How many EHCP appeals have happened in each of the past 10 years... how many went to tribunal each year... how many of the tribunals were won each year') was answered only via an attached PDF ('FOI641904335 Response.pdf'); no figures appear inline in the correspondence text and could not be machine-extracted by this research pass.
Caveat: Figures exist but are locked in a PDF attachment — see URL to retrieve manually. This exact request title/question set ('EHCP Statistics Query'/'EHCP Statistics Request') was sent by the same requester to all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs.