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In the 2024-25 academic year, 29,446 families in England appealed to the SEND Tribunal about decisions made on their disabled children's education. These parents won their case 99.2 per cent of the time. A figure of that kind deserves a moment's reflection. In any contest between citizen and state some margin of official error is to be expected, and a healthy institution learns from its defeats. But when a public body is found to be wrong in more than ninety-nine cases in eve

Hertfordshire County Council admitted it had got 86 per cent of its special educational needs decisions wrong. Most families were expected to treat such decisions as final. One refused, and with Justify beside them the case reached the High Court and changed how an entire council treats thousands of children.

Nick Whiteley, Founder, Justify UK Foundation When my son's school excluded him permanently, I was not looking for a cause as much as I was looking for answers. Nick Whiteley He has ADHD. For a time, he attended a school whose headteacher had formed the view that the way to address this was through punishment. The reasoning, if one can call it that, was that sufficiently consistent consequences would alter the behaviour. What it actually did was compound a child's distress an