Special Educational Needs: Wiltshire

(asked on 13th May 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

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.


Answered by
Sarah Sackman Portrait
Sarah Sackman
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 21st May 2025

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 It does not include those cases which were withdrawn or conceded before the hearing as the request was for the numbers upheld.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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