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1059

appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)

1129

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.

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Information Advice and Support — 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 · 01737 737 300.
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%

18.3%

Resolved before hearing — 819 (72.5%) Contested, council lost — 207 (18.3%) Contested, council won — 55 (4.9%) Partially split — 48 (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 (1129 appeals) — see how estimates work.

Freedom of Information responses

SEND Tribunal Costs

Awaiting classification

Requested by Beth Wilson on 2023-01-30 · answered 2023-02-27 · covers approx. 2020-2022 ("each of the last 3 years" from a Jan 2023 request)

Asks: how many SEND tribunal cases were listed against SCC for each of the last 3 years; of these how many won/lost; how many conceded prior to the tribunal hearing; staff costs and legal costs for SEND tribunal cases each of the last 3 years. Answer delivered as a 'Response some not held.pdf' attachment -- confirmed to render no extractable text across three separate attempts in this session. Filename implies the response itself was partial (some information not held).

Caveat: Figures entirely inaccessible via automated means in this session. Manual download of the attachment at the URL above is required.

SEND Tribunal statistics 2018 and 2019

Awaiting classification

Requested by Lucy Swallow on 2020-06-08 · answered 2020-07-16 · covers 2018, 2019

Asks, for 2018 and 2019 separately: how many SEND tribunals SCC defended; how many SCC won; how many involved a barrister; total barrister spend. Response was delivered via multiple attachments (not shown inline) -- could not be opened or extracted in this session.

Caveat: Figures not extracted. A separate, better-documented request (SEND Tribunal Costs, above) covers a more recent, overlapping period for the same council.