Turn your LA refusal letter into a draft appeal

Upload the decision letter and any reports. You get draft reasons for appeal (form SEND35 or SEND35A), a statutory timeline, and — if the council missed the 20 weeks — a draft complaint. Every point is tied to a page in your documents. You check it and submit it yourself on gov.uk.

Test mode: black out your child's name, date of birth and address before uploading. Files are deleted after 30 days. We are not lawyers and we do not assess your chances.

Your documents

The decision letter, plus any specialist reports, school reports and an existing EHC plan. PDF, DOCX or TXT with selectable text. Up to 30 files and 300 pages.

Your e-mail (optional)

We send one message with the link to your drafts and a link to delete everything. Nothing else.

When did you first ask for the assessment? (optional)

Every statutory deadline is counted from this date. If you leave it out we look for it in your documents.

You are

I confirm the documents are anonymised (test mode) and I understand this is a draft for me to check and submit myself.

Your files are read in this browser; only the text and the file itself are sent. You file the appeal yourself, using the gov.uk service.

What this is, and what it is not

This tool prepares documents. It does not file them. There is no “submit” button here and we never write to the tribunal or to the council on your behalf — you send everything yourself, through the gov.uk appeal service or by e-mail to send@justice.gov.uk.

We do not tell you whether you should appeal, and we do not estimate your chances. This is not legal advice. If you can wait for it, free specialist advice from IPSEA or your local SENDIASS is better than anything a piece of software can give you.

The deadline is two months from the date of the council's letter, or one month from a mediation certificate, whichever is later — gov.uk. We calculate it from your documents and tell you to check it against the letter.

Reports about a child's health are special category data. Read how we handle them in the privacy notice.