ABSTRACT

This paper provides an overview of the rate of appeal to the Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Tribunal in England by analysis of official data published by the Ministry of Justice. The article will also consider the effects of socio-economic deprivation on appeals and hearings, the fiscal constraints placed on Local Authorities and the 2018 change to the calculation of the rate of appeal. The 2014 Children and Families Act consigns a greater emphasis on the avoidance of disagreements, nevertheless appeals to the Tribunal have more than doubled since 2015. Analyses of appeal and hearing rates are conducted for all English Local Authorities (LAs) and regions using the government’s Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index to identify levels of deprivation. The research confirms significant variations across LAs and regions and concludes that the appeal and hearing rates in areas with lower socio-economic status (SES) are significantly smaller than in the least deprived areas. There still continues to be considerable challenges to improving parental confidence for the SEND non-statutory offer (Lamb, 2009, 2019). The question remains though how achievable is this in the exceptionally uncertain funding environment, post Covid-19?

摘要

本文通过分析司法部发布的官方数据，概述了对英格兰特殊教育需求和残疾（SEND）法庭的上诉率。本文还将考虑社会经济剥夺对上诉和听证会的影响，对地方政府的财政限制以及2018年上诉率计算的变化。2014年《儿童与家庭法》更加强调了避免分歧，但自2015年以来，对法庭的上诉增加了一倍以上。对所有英国地方政府（LA）和地区的上诉和听证率进行的分析均使用政府的收入贫困影响儿童指数，以确定贫困程度。该研究证实了各洛杉矶和各地区之间的显着差异，并得出结论，社会经济地位较低的地区的上诉和听证率明显低于最贫困的地区。在提高父母对SEND非法定要约的信心方面仍然存在巨大挑战（Lamb，2009，2019）。问题仍然存在，尽管在Covid-19之后，在极其不确定的融资环境中这是如何实现的？