Special Educational Needs: Tribunals
(asked on 19th December 2023) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for special educational needs and disability tribunal hearings.
This question was answered on 9th January 2024
We have appointed more judges and panel members to the SEND jurisdiction.
We have also increased sittings in SEND from just over 12,000 sitting days in 2019/20 to over 18,500 last year.
As a result, we have increased the volume of appeals we have disposed of from just over 8,000 in 2021/22 to nearly 11,000 in 2022/13.