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<p>HM Courts & Tribunals Service, First-tier Tribunal Special Educational Needs
and Disability (FtT SEND) considers appeals from the parents of children with special
educational needs or from young people with special educational needs, against the
decisions of Local Authorities where the parent or the young person cannot reach agreement
with the Local Authority about how those needs will be met. FtT SEND also considers
parents' or young persons’ claims of disability discrimination in schools. The Ministry
of Justice has recently published FtT SEND statistics for the 2013-14 academic year
and these can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/385777/sen-tables-2014.xls.</p><p>
</p><p>Although the tribunal deals with appeals against local authority placements
it does not deal with appeals relating to the admission processes for children with
SEN in any schools nor does it deal with appeals relating to the education within
schools, of children with SEN. HMCTS is therefore unable to provide the specific information
that has been requested and has no role in compliance.</p><p> </p><p>Appeals to the
FtT SEND are against Local Authorities rather than the individual school or educational
establishment. Appeals can be made for a number of reasons including, for example,
where the Local Authority has refused to undertake an assessment of the child's or
young person’s needs or where a parent disagrees with the school named in the Education,
Health and Social Care Plan provided by the Local Authority. The tribunal may, in
this latter group of cases, require the local authority to amend the name of the school
or other institution to that preferred by the parent or young person. That preferred
school may be an academy.</p>
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