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Medway Council
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127
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
253
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.
- Medway 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 · 01634 623542.
- 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 — 183 (72.6%)
Contested, council lost — 46 (18.3%)
Contested, council won — 12 (4.8%)
Partially split — 11 (4.4%)
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 (253 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Awaiting classification
Same 4-question template as Kent (spend / legal spend / appeals received / tribunal outcomes in council's favour), 1 Jan 2019 - 1 Oct 2024. Answer delivered as a 'FOI003006.docx' attachment. The browser's native document viewer explicitly returned 'No preview available' for this file -- it could not be rendered or extracted by any method tried in this session.
Caveat: Figures entirely inaccessible via automated means -- manual download and opening of the .docx at the URL above is required. Medway separately REFUSED outright the unrelated Andrew Hall 'National FOI Request — SEND Performance Comparative Study' campaign request (sent 7 Apr 2026).