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Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
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101
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
168
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.
- Oldham 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 · 0161 503 1540.
- 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 — 117 (69.6%)
Contested, council lost — 30 (17.9%)
Contested, council won — 18 (10.7%)
Partially split — 3 (1.8%)
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 (168 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Awaiting classification
By year — Appeals / Tribunal / In Favour of LA: 2019: 59 / <5 / <5. 2020: 74 / <5 / <5. 2021: 57 / <5 / <5. 2022: 94 / <5 / <5. 2023: 211 / 32 / <5. 2024: 313 / 43 / <5. SEND provision (High Needs Block) spend 1/1/19-1/10/24: £265,935k. Legal team spend: £7,612.50.
Caveat: Small counts (under 5) suppressed as '<5', likely to avoid identifying individuals. 'Appeals' appears to be appeals received in that year, not necessarily decided in that year.
Successful
Table for Q6/6A/6B (appeals per year / tribunal-related figure / tribunals won), as transcribed from a garbled HTML-to-text table: '2018/19 65 5 Less than 5; 2019/20 72 5 Less than 5; 2020/21 51 11 9; 2021/22 83 12 9; 2022/23 138 12 12; 2023/24 226 47 33' with column headers appearing as 'Tribunals / Mediations / Tribunals Won'.
Caveat: The exact mapping of the three numeric columns to appeals/mediations/tribunals-won is ambiguous due to how the original HTML table linearised into plain text; recommend checking the original response on the request page before using these figures. Small counts under 5 suppressed as 'Less than 5'.