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Last month (May 26),642  parent/carers & young people accessed our service which led to a total of 3,264 calls, emails/contact forms, meetings. 

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SENDIASS can offer advice, information and support with a tribunal appeal:-

  • Senior Support Workers can offer support with appeal paperwork completion and gathering of evidence for a tribunal hearing
  • At Tribunals we can attend in a supporter role. Attendance as a supporter must be agreed with your Support Worker 
  • Our helpline team can offer advice and guidance on the appeal process.

If you need our support and advice, please complete our Tribunal Contact Form

Our Tribunal Team are currently in high demand and for this reason, we will need to check capacity with the team before we confirm their availability to help you.  

Tribunal Hearings

  • Senior Support Workers can attend Tribunal Hearings with you if they are available 
  • Senior Support Workers can attend in a supporter role. Attendance as a supporter must be agreed with your Support Worker
  • Senior Support Workers can offer support with appeal paperwork completion and gathering of evidence for a tribunal hearing

If a referral is made, we will check our Tribunal Team's capacity and if they are are in a position to help you, we will request from you further information:-

  • a copy of the final EHCP
  • any appendices or  attachments (eg. reports)
  • a copy of the local authority decision letter
  • a copy of the Annual Review report (if appeal is following an annual review)

For Section B and/or F and/or I appeals 

In requesting support from our Tribunal caseworkers we ask that you agree:

  • To give consent for SEND IASS to notify the LA Tribunal Team that SEND IASS are supporting you with your appeal and that you give permission for the LA team to copy our tribunal caseworkers into future correspondence they may send to you.
  • To forward emails to caseworkers you have received from the courts and LA (where we are not copied in)
  • To notify caseworkers of any changes that may affect your appeal.
  • To let us know if you are receiving support from a solicitor, other advocate or voluntary organisation. SEND IASS will not be able to support you with an appeal so as to avoid conflicting advice and to ensure we direct support to those parent/carers who are not receiving any other support.
  • To engage and respond to emails and calls regarding your appeal case in a timely manner. If you consistently fail to respond to emails and calls from our caseworkers, then the tribunal support from our service will be withdrawn.

You must give the reasons for the appeal including the issues that you want the Tribunal to decide. These are the ‘grounds of appeal’. The reasons don’t have to be lengthy or written in legal language, but need to say more than just, ‘I disagree‘. Explain why you disagree with the decision and what you would like SEND Tribunal to do.

 

Parents remain in control of the Tribunal process at all times, and are responsible for making decisions about what they want the Tribunal to know about their child’s needs, the support their child requires and the most appropriate educational placement for their child

Also in this section:

Helpline

Our helpline team provide a wide range of information, advice, and support on all areas of SEND

Parent/Carer & Young Person Self-Referral Form

For a self-referral to our service complete our contact form here