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Shropshire Council
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51
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
23
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.
- Shropshire 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 · 01743 280019 Monday to Friday 10am till 4pm..
- 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 — 17 (73.9%)
Contested, council lost — 4 (17.4%)
Contested, council won — 1 (4.3%)
Partially split — 1 (4.3%)
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 (23 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Request explicitly asked, for 2016/17 refusal-to-assess cases: whether the decision was changed by tribunal appeal or conceded by the LA before appeal; how many were subsequently granted an EHCP after assessment vs not; how many appealed to tribunal; how many won at tribunal and were granted an EHCP; how many lost at tribunal and remained refused; how many were granted a plan other than an EHCP. WhatDoTheyKnow marks the request 'Successful' and the council's reply (26 May 2017, signed by Karen Bradshaw, Director of Children's Services) is present on the thread, but the substantive answer content did not render in the page text extracted by the tools available in this pass (the visible reply body is empty aside from the sign-off) — a technical/rendering limitation of this research pass, not a confirmed absence of an answer. Figures NOT captured.
Caveat: A confirmed 'Successful' response exists from a named Director of Children's Services, but the actual figures could not be retrieved with the tools available in this pass; a manual visit to the URL is recommended to read the reply directly. No other SEND-tribunal-outcome-specific FOI response was found for Shropshire — neither the Lyndsay 'Send Stats' 2022/23 batch nor the Andrew Hall 2026 national batch appear to have reached 'Successful'/'Partially successful' status for this authority as of the research date.