Kensington and Chelsea
London
26
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
38
appeals registered, 2025 (official DfE figure)
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.
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- Full of Life IASS — 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 960 9064.
- 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
Resolved before hearing — 28 (71.8%)
Contested, council lost — 7 (17.9%)
Contested, council won — 2 (5.1%)
Partially split — 2 (5.1%)
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 (38 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Partially successful
No figures extracted yet for this response — see the source thread directly.
Caveat: Attachment confirmed to exist but not machine-readable: Downloaded and read the PDF in full (4 pages) via the Read tool. It is a formal refusal notice under section 17 FOIA, not a data disclosure — no Kensington & Chelsea-specific tribunal appeal counts, outcomes, or decision-type breakdown are contained in the document. This genuinely needs a fresh, narrower FOI request (or manual retrieval from the national tribunal statistics filtered to this LA) rather than document retrieval.. Needs manual retrieval, not necessarily a fresh FOI.