PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(13 May 2025)

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many tribunal appeals were lodged against decisions made by Wiltshire Council relating to Education, Health and Care Plans in each of the last five years; and in how many cases the appeal was upheld.

Asked by:
Sarah Gibson (Liberal Democrat)

Information about appeal outcomes to SEND is published at Tribunals statistics quarterly: October to December 2024 - GOV.UK, but is not broken down to the detail requested.

The data requested, academic years September to August, are set out in the table below:

Wiltshire Council	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24
Number of appeals lodged relating to EHCP	20	40	66	69	46
Number of appeals upheld1	19	39	64	67	45

⁽¹⁾ Is the total of cases where the appellant wins the majority of the appeal (i.e. the appellant may be successful in 2 out of the 3 sections they appeal against). It does not include those cases which were withdrawn or conceded before the hearing as the request was for the numbers upheld.

The information provided has been extracted from local management information.

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