Special Educational Needs: Appeals

(asked on 7th February 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what data his Department holds the proportion of decisions on ECH plans assessments that were overturned at a tribunal in England for each of the last three years; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Mike Freer Portrait
Mike Freer
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 20th February 2023

An appeal to the First-tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) may contain an appeal against one or more Local Authority decisions and will, for statistical purposes, be classed as being in favour of the appellant if the appeal succeeds in full or in part.

The table below shows the number of appeals determined at hearing in each of the last three statistical years and of those the number and percentage of cases found in favour of the appellant.

Year

Number of appeals determined at hearing

Number of appeals in favour of the appellant

%

2021/22

5600

5393

96%

2020/21

4825

4651

93%

2019/20

3770

3577

95%

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