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Newcastle upon Tyne City Council

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appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)

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.

Newcastle Special 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 · 0191 211 6255.
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

72.5%

18.7%

Resolved before hearing — 66 (72.5%) Contested, council lost — 17 (18.7%) Contested, council won — 4 (4.4%) Partially split — 4 (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 (91 appeals) — see how estimates work.

Freedom of Information responses

LBC REQUEST - FOI SEND provision

Awaiting classification

Requested by Fraser Knight on 2024-11-01 · answered 2024-11-15 · covers 2019-01-01 to 2024-10-01 (aggregate)

'Answer 3: 69 tribunal notifications between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024. Please note some of the 69 have yet to go to tribunal. Of these, 9 cases have been to a tribunal hearing, of which 5 cases were decided in favour of the council.' Legal team spend for SEND appeals: £0.

Caveat: Some of the 69 notifications had not yet reached a tribunal hearing at the time of response, so the 9-cases-heard figure is a subset still growing.