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Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
Answered — unclearWest Midlands
41
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
48
appeals registered, 2025 (official DfE figure)
Answered — unclear. A request was made and answered, but this pass could not determine whether it contains usable tribunal figures.
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.
- Sandwell 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 · 0121 289 2566 (24 hour answer service).
- 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 — 35 (72.9%)
Contested, council lost — 9 (18.8%)
Contested, council won — 2 (4.2%)
Partially split — 2 (4.2%)
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 (48 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Successful (WhatDoTheyKnow site tag; no figures were actually disclosed on this thread)
No figures were ever released on this thread. The council failed to respond for over four months; when a new FOI officer (Joyce Gardner) resurfaced the request on 27 Apr / 1 May 2023 and offered to complete it, the requester replied on 5 May 2023 that she 'no longer need[ed] this information', and the request was closed with no data provided.
Caveat: This specific thread produced no usable figures. A broader body-level search (query terms: tribunal, appeals, conceded, won, lost, outcome) turned up no other SEND-tribunal-outcome FOI request for Sandwell; this remains a genuine, confirmed data gap for the council.
Re-use terms stated by the council: Standard footer used on the closing message referenced: 'protected by copyright laws... private study, non-commercial research or news reporting... Open Government Licence... Open Parliament Licence.'