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Lancashire County Council
Data availableNorth West
334
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
472
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.
- Lancashire SENDIASS — 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 · 0300 123 6706.
- 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 — 329 (69.7%)
Contested, council lost — 84 (17.8%)
Contested, council won — 51 (10.8%)
Partially split — 8 (1.7%)
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 (472 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Partially successful
Cases defended in first-tier tribunal: 2017 - 20, 2018 - 24, 2019 - 25. Cases the LA won: 2017 - 7, 2018 - 4, 2019 - 5. Legal costs: 'not held in any reportable format... to calculate the costs for defending cases at tribunals in any given year would necessitate a manual trawl of the case files... exceed the limit of £450' (refused under s.12 FOIA).
Caveat: Legal cost breakdown refused under the section 12 (cost limit) exemption. Lancashire County Council covers the two-tier districts of the county (Burnley, Chorley, Fylde, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle, Preston, Ribble Valley, Rossendale, South Ribble, West Lancashire) — it does not cover Blackburn with Darwen or Blackpool, which are separate unitary authorities logged individually in this catalogue.