SEND-ground applications

For each academic year ' 2023/24, 2024/25 and 2025/26 (year to date) ' please provide:

1. Applications decided: the number of SEND-ground applications your
authority made a decision on.

2. Refused in full: of those, the number where no travel assistance of any
kind was awarded.

3. Stage 1 challenges: the number of those refusals the family asked you
to look at again (your first review or appeal stage, whatever it is
called locally).

4. Stage 1 successes: of those, the number where the outcome changed so
that some assistance was awarded.

5. Stage 2 appeals: the number that went on to your second (final) appeal
stage ' an appeal panel or equivalent.

6. Stage 2 successes: of those, the number where some assistance was
awarded.

And one non-numerical question:

7. Who currently decides your Stage 2 appeals: (a) a panel independent of
the original decision-makers, (b) elected councillors, or (c) a council
officer? Please also provide a copy of, or a link to, your current home
to school travel policy and appeals procedure.

A TABLE YOU CAN SIMPLY FILL IN

2023/24 2024/25 2025/26 (to date)
1. Applications decided ...... ...... ......
2. Refused in full ...... ...... ......
3. Stage 1 challenges ...... ...... ......
4. Stage 1 successes ...... ...... ......
5. Stage 2 appeals ...... ...... ......
6. Stage 2 successes ...... ...... ......

 *Not just SEND appeals, mainstream and SEND

7. The Stage 2 appeal panel is made up of 2 managers and a senior officer within Transport Services, who have had no prior involvement with the appeal. The team and manager that made the original decision is not involved in any part of the Stage 2 process. Link to policy is below.

School and college transport policy – Lincolnshire County Council