Sutton
London
90
appeals registered, 2024 (official DfE figure)
144
appeals registered, 2025 (official DfE figure)
Answered — document pending. A council has confirmed answering this question, but the figures were supplied as a PDF, Word or Excel attachment that could not be read automatically. The source is linked below — the answer exists, it just hasn't been transcribed yet.
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.
- Sutton Information, Advice, and Support Service (SIASS) — 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 · 020 8323 0462.
- 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 — 104 (72.7%)
Contested, council lost — 26 (18.2%)
Contested, council won — 7 (4.9%)
Partially split — 6 (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 (144 appeals) — see how estimates work.
Freedom of Information responses
Awaiting classification
No figures extracted yet for this response — see the source thread directly.
Caveat: Attachment confirmed to exist but not machine-readable: Downloaded the .docx ('FOI Response 5563.docx') and extracted its full text via unzip + XML tag-stripping of word/document.xml (Read tool cannot open binary .docx directly). No Sutton-specific tribunal appeal counts, outcomes, or decision-type breakdown are actually contained in the letter. The two accompanying image.png attachments (very likely email-signature/logo graphics, consistent with what appeared inline in every other council's covering letter in this batch) were not downloaded, since the docx already supplies the complete final response text and specifically states no figures are being given.. Needs manual retrieval, not necessarily a fresh FOI.