PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Special Educational Needs: Appeals (7 October 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many appeals against SEND decisions by people in each Greater London Borough were heard at tribunals in each of the last five years; and how many and what proportion of those cases were won by parents.

Asked by:
Ruth Cadbury (Labour)

The information requested is not available for each individual Greater London Borough and could only be obtained with further data engineering work which would be disproportionate cost.

Information about Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) appeals is published on GOV.UK: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics.

However, it is not available in the specific format requested.

Success rates at appeal in the SEND Tribunal include if a parent or young person is successful at appeal for a part or in full. Hearing information is held on each individual appeal record. Each appeal would need to be accessed, the decision recording the outcome obtained for all records held within each of the 33 London Boroughs for the past 5 years.

Answered by:
Heidi Alexander (Labour)
15 October 2024