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Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council

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North West

appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)

127

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.

Liverpool and Knowsley Educational Needs and Disabilities 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 · 0333 323 7768.
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

69.5%

18%

10.9%

Resolved before hearing — 89 (69.5%) Contested, council lost — 23 (18%) Contested, council won — 14 (10.9%) Partially split — 2 (1.6%)

This council's own answer doesn't give a usable outcome breakdown. This estimate applies the pooled outcome rate from other North West councils with real reported figures to this council's own real, officially-published appeal volume for 2025 (127 appeals) — see how estimates work.

Freedom of Information responses

First-tier Tribunal (Special Educational Needs and Disability)

Successful

Requested by Michael Gaffney on 2020-01-31 · answered 2020-02-14 · covers 2017, 2018, 2019

Council marked the request 'completed' and provided the response only via an external hosted portal link (knowsleytransaction.mendixcloud.com), not an attachment on WhatDoTheyKnow itself; content could not be accessed or extracted by this research pass.

Caveat: Status is 'Successful' (figures were disclosed) but delivered off-platform via an external portal link that could not be followed. Only found via cross-reference from a neighbouring council's 'requests like this' list — an independent direct search of Knowsley's WhatDoTheyKnow page was not separately performed and may surface additional requests (e.g. an LBC REQUEST response).