Special Educational Needs: Tribunals
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many parents or young people have taken Birmingham City Council to appeal at a tribunal against an Education, Care and Health Plan decision in each of the last five years; and what (a) number and (b) proportion of those appeals were (i) determined in favour of the appellants, (ii) determined in favour of the local authority, (iii) withdrawn, (iv) conceded before the hearing, and (v) still awaiting a hearing.
Answered by Heidi Alexander
Information about appeals to the First-tier Tribunal for Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) is published at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.
The table below sets out the number of appeals to the SEND Tribunal against decisions made by Birmingham City Council for the academic years 2019 to 2022 (the latest period for which data are available); and the numbers of those appeals that were (i) determined in favour of the appellants, (ii) determined in favour of the local authority, (iii) withdrawn, (iv) conceded before the hearing, and (v) still awaiting a hearing.
Appellants would include appeals made by parents and young persons.
Academic year | Total appeals registered | Total appeals determined in favour of the appellants | Total appeals determined in favour of the local authority | Total appeals withdrawn | Conceded before the hearing | Awaiting a hearing date |
2020 | 291 | 180 | 10 | 32 | 65 | 0 |
2021 | 547 | 367 | 31 | 48 | 89 | 1 |
2022 | 525 | 365 | 10 | 52 | 84 | 12 |
2023 | Data is not currently published | |||||
1- Appeal data is only available for 3 years due to record retention policy.
2- Appeals registered and appeals concluded will not tally due to spanning over academic years.
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