After you send in your appeal form, the SEND Tribunal will register your appeal and will write to you and the local authority (LA) to tell you both what steps need to be taken and when by.

Please click on the links below to find out more about the appeal process and what you need to do to prepare for the hearing:

Registration and key forms

LA response

Evidence and the bundle

Case review and management hearings

Settlement/withdrawal of appeals

For more information on specific types of appeal see our pages on:

• refusal to assess appeals
• appeals against a refusal to issue an EHC plan
• appeals about the contents of an EHC plan, and 
• appealing against the school or other setting named in your EHC plan.