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Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) tribunal appeal rate (calendar year) (10600) Metric type
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- This is the total number of Special Education Needs and Disability appeals registered with the Tribunal in the calendar year, expressed as a proportion of appealable decisions.
The First-tier Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) jurisdiction hears appeals against decisions of local authorities in England regarding special educational needs. Appeals to the Tribunal can be made in relation to a number of different decisions a Local Authority would make relating to that system which included the refusal to assess a child with special educational needs, the refusal to issue a statement of SEN following that assessment or the contents of the statement once it has been finalised.
On 1 September 2014 the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) provisions in the Children and Families Act 2014 introduced Education, Health and Care (EHC) plans legal documents that set out the education health and social care support a child or young person with SEN requires when their needs cannot be met by resources available to mainstream early years providers, schools and post-16 institutions, prior to this period children would have been issued with a statement of SEN. Children with statements of special educational needs will gradually go through a transition process to move them into the new EHC system over the course of the next few years. For the period of transition, when both systems are being run in parallel, appeals to the SEND tribunal can therefore arise in relation to either SEN Legal Framework.
The number of 'appealable decisions' is the sum of number of initial requests for EHC basements refused, number of assessments completed an decision made not to issue an EHC plan, number with an EHC plan as January each year and number of EHC plans ceased because the special educational needs of the childe or young person are being met without an EHC plan.
Totals have been rounded to the nearest 10. There may be discrepancies between the sum of constituent items and totals as shown. Figures in the return are subject to possible annual revisions.
- Modified
- 10 Jun 2021
- Data last updated
- 15 Jun 2022
- Short label
- SEND tribunal appeal rate
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 1
- Polarity
- a low value is good
- Measure
- Appeal rate
- Dataset
- SEND Tribunal tables: statistics on the appeal rate to the SEND Tribunal
- Collection
- Tribunals statistics
- Source
- Ministry of Justice
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