Haringey
Data availableLondon
123
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
151
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.
This council says it doesn't track this. In its FOI response, Haringey told the requester it does not categorise SEND tribunal appeals as simply "won" or "lost" — most are resolved by consent order rather than a contested ruling. See why that's true almost everywhere.
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.
- Haringey's Information, Adavice & Support Service for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities — 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 · 0208 802 2611.
- 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 — 2022
real, from FOI response
Resolved before hearing — 6 (46.2%)
Contested, council lost — 0 (0%)
Contested, council won — 0 (0%)
Partially split — 7 (53.8%)
Council states verbatim: 'We are unable to report as "won/lost" as some cases are partially upheld... A high number if cases are by agreement between the LA/tribunal and parents and consent orders are issued.' 'Consent orders' (6) mapped to resolved_before_hearing as a pre-hearing negotiated settlement. 'Partially upheld' (7) mapped to partially_split, since that term is direction-agnostic by definition (a mixed ruling, regardless of which party benefits more). 'Upheld' (14) is NOT mapped to contested_and_council_lost or contested_and_council_won, because this response never states which direction 'upheld' refers to -- contrast Reading Borough Council elsewhere in this batch, which explicitly states 'upheld' means the tribunal found FOR the council there, the opposite of the more common usage seen in most other councils in this project. Only 13 of the 64 appeals registered that year are accounted for by consent-orders+partially-upheld; the remaining 51 (including the 14 'Upheld' cases) are not otherwise broken down here.
By decision type
By decision type — 2022-2024
| Category (council's own wording) | Appeals | Overturned |
|---|---|---|
| Section B&F combined | 63 | — |
| Section I | 41 | — |
| Section B&F&I combined | 57 | — |
| Section F only | 13 | — |
Freedom of Information responses
Awaiting classification
Q3 (appeals registered, calendar year; council states data unavailable before 2022): 2022=64 appeals, 2023=87 appeals, 2024=124 appeals. Q3i-iii breakdown (% of appeals by section, council notes no appeals against Section B alone): Section B&F combined: 2022=25%, 2023=23%, 2024=22%. Section I: 2022=13%, 2023=22%, 2024=11%. Section B&F&I combined: 2022=31%, 2023=20%, 2024=16%. Section F only (count, not %): 2022=3, 2023=3, 2024=7. Q4: council asked for clarification of 'defended' (opposed vs. unopposed vs. contested to final hearing), no single figure given. Q5 (verbatim): 'We are unable to report as "won/lost" as some cases are partially upheld... A high number if cases are by agreement between the LA/tribunal and parents and consent orders are issued.' Data given by calendar year: 2024 — 3 cases Upheld, 1 case Partially upheld, 16 Consent orders. 2023 — 6 cases Upheld, 4 cases Partially upheld, 14 Consent orders. 2022 — 14 cases Upheld, 7 cases Partially upheld, 6 Consent orders. Q6: not recorded/unavailable. Q7 (external legal costs, available from 2021 only): 2021/22=£51,070.53 (£2,998.50 + £48,072.03 across two cost lines); 2022/23=£74,358.11 (£53,185.50 + £21,172.61); 2023/24=£99,689.25; 2024/25=£1,334.00; total quoted £157,207.25.
Caveat: Council explicitly states it cannot report a simple won/lost split because outcomes can be mixed (partially upheld) and many appeals end in consent orders agreed between LA and parents rather than a contested tribunal decision. 'Upheld' here refers to the tribunal's ruling terminology as used by the council, not independently confirmed as meaning 'won by the Borough' or 'won by the parent' — transcribed as reported. No data held for 2019-2021 for Q3/Q5.