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Current trends

At the Tribunal we keep statistical information over the period of the Tribunal year from September to August and over the financial year from April to March. The following tables give some information on how many appeals we receive and the type of appeals that parents have lodged with the Tribunal.

SEN Appeals over the years
July 2008
Disability Discrimination Claims
Further information

SEN Appeals over the years

Year on year rise in appeals over the Tribunal Year

Year	Number of appeals	Percentage Increase
1994/1995	1161	N/A
1995/1996	1626	40
1996/1997	2051	26
1997/1998	2191	7
1998/1999	2412	10
1999/2000	2463	2
2000/2001	2728	11
2001/2002	3048	11
2002/2003	3532	16
2003/2004	3354	-5
2004/2005	3215	-4
2005/2006	3411	6
2006/2007	3110	-9

July 2008

In July we registered 394 new SEN appeals.

Month	Number of appeals registered	Number of decisions made	Number of appeals withdrawn by parent	Number of appeals conceded by LEA
July	394	123	155	84

Disability Discrimination Claims

We are now in the sixth year that the Tribunal has been in receipt of disability discrimination claims. In July we registered 18 new claims. The following table shows the number of claims registered since we began to receive claims in September 2002.

Month	2003/2004	2004/5005	2005/2006	2006/2007	2007/2008
Septmember	4	6	11	3	12
October	8	4	13	15	16
November	2	8	17	11	15
December	7	8	10	9	15
January	8	5	9	11	16
Febuary	6	5	8	7	9
March	12	6	5	11	8
April	8	5	12	20	15
May	11	6	6	7	9
June	5	8	13	4	4
July	8	7	11	9	18
August	3	9	7	8
Total	81	77	122	115	137

Further information

If you have any questions regarding these figures or would like to request particular statistics please do not hesitate to contact us.

Alternatively you can download our latest Annual Report.