Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal

Mr. Waterson
To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Skills what proportion of children with a special educational need were referred to the Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal in (a) Eastbourne and (b) East Sussex in the last two years.

Vera Baird
I have been asked to reply.

The following table gives the number of appeals against East Sussex local authority in the last two school years, and the number of children with special educational needs in the local authority’s primary and secondary schools in the January of the relevant period.

Appeals concern children residing in the local authority, rather than pupils at the local authority’s schools. It would therefore be misleading to express one figure as a proportion of the other.

Eastbourne is not a local education authority and we do not collate appeals data at the more local level.

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|       |Special educational needs appeals|Children with special educational needs|
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|2005/06|81                               |12,567                                 |
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|2004/05|68                               |11,980                                 |
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