Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/your-council/...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to 
[2][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply service.
If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions explaining how
to do this.

References

Visible links
1. https://www.bedford.gov.uk/your-council/...
2. mailto:[email address]

Thank you for your e-mail requesting information under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 / Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

We will proceed with the request which we received today. It is our
intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible
otherwise within the statutory 20 working days.

In considering the request, it may be subject to exemptions that the
Council rely on to refuse the information. Some exemptions are absolute
and some only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption
outweighs that of disclosing the information.
[1]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Please note that should you be requesting information under the
Environmental Information Regulations although we provide free access to a
wide range of information through our website, access to any public
registers which we hold and for inspecting information at our offices, we
are allowed to charge you a reasonable fee for providing certain
information.
If applicable, we will issue you with a fee notice. This will detail the
tasks involved in responding to the request, and associated costs. Further
information is available on the EIR page of Bedford Borough Council’s
website at the following link:

[2]https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to
this matter should be emailed to [3][email address]

Any emails containing personal or sensitive data will be sent as ‘secure
e-mails’. In order for you to access a secure email you will be asked to
create an account and log into the Council’s secure e-mail reply
service. If you do receive a secure email there will be instructions
explaining how to do this.

References

Visible links
1. https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...
2. https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...
3. mailto:[email address]

Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Fraser Knight,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No. RFI-02893

Thank you for requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We will proceed with the request which we received on the 01 November 2024. It is our intention to have the information delivered to you as soon as possible otherwise within the statutory 20 working days – by 29 November 2024

Request:
1) Between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024 how much was spent by the council on SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) provision?
2) Between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024 how much was spent by the council on legal teams for cases dealing with SEND appeals?
3) Between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024 how many SEND appeals were received by the council?
4) Of these appeal cases decided by tribunal, how many were in favour of the council?

In consideration of the request, which may be subject to any exemptions the Council may rely on to refuse the request, some of which are absolute and some of which only apply where the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs that in disclosing the information.

Any future correspondence you may have with the Council in relation to this matter should be emailed to [email address] .

Yours sincerely

Maria Scapini

Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk  
‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on:
Twitter: @bedfordtweets  
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

show quoted sections

Bedford BC - OFFICIAL-Unsecure

Dear Fraser Knight,

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No. RFI-02893

I refer to your recent enquiry for information held by the Council.

Under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, the authority must state whether or not the information exists and I confirm that we do hold the information requested.

Please find the information you requested below.

Request:
1) Between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024 how much was spent by the council on SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) provision?
Response: £131,917,786.84 during this period.

2) Between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024 how much was spent by the council on legal teams for cases dealing with SEND appeals?
Response: Information not recorded in a reportable manner.

3) Between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024 how many SEND appeals were received by the council?
Response: 103

4) Of these appeal cases decided by tribunal, how many were in favour of the council?
Response: Of the 103 appeals received by the Council between 1st January 2019 and 1st October 2024, 22 appeals proceeded to a Tribunal hearing and of those 3 cases were found in favour of the Council.

The information supplied to you continues to be protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. You are free to use it for your own purposes, including any non-commercial research you are doing and for the purposes of news reporting. Any other re-use, for example commercial publication, would require the permission of the copyright holder. For further information regarding Re-use of Public Sector information please see link below.

If after viewing the information you are for whatever reason unhappy with our response to your application you are entitled to pursue any dissatisfaction through the Council's Internal Review Procedure. Pursuant to Section 17 (7) of the Act the procedure provided by the Council for dealing with complaints about the determination of this request for information is the Council’s FOI Complaints Procedure, a copy of which can be obtained on request or is set out at: https://www.bedford.gov.uk/council-and-d...

Yours sincerely

Maria Scapini

Customer Feedback Officer
Customer Services & Customer Feedback
Bedford Borough Council, Borough Hall, Cauldwell Street, Bedford, MK42 9AP
Website: www.bedford.gov.uk
‘Bedford Borough Council – Working with our partners to make the Borough a better place to live, work and visit.’

For up-to-date information on the Council follow us on:
Twitter: @bedfordtweets
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bedfordboroughc...

show quoted sections