Has anybody used professional help with appeals? How was your experience?

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I am considering using professional help for our infant school appeal case.
What does everybody think about this? Is it a good idea? Has anybody used help?

I personally haven't but my cousin had a complicated CP issue and used an independent company, they were excellent.

Thank you for your response. What is a cp issue?

Why are you appealing? It will most likely be a massive waste of money.

Yes, we did.

Used a barrister who specialises in school appeals, only does them, and training of people who sit on the panels etc.

It did make the whole process much more relaxed, as he dealt with the technical stuff (space needed per child etc) and we could just concentrate on family effects etc. Helpful when I was sobbing...

Best money we ever spent, as we did win.

Our home authority decided to withdraw our application for another county because we didn't apply through them. This process was changed recently and it was covered in their booklet. We shouldve applied them through our home county.
However we missed it and we assumed the process was the same as the time when we applied for our eldests school.
They have not called us to let us know until the offer day they despite the fact that they realised we made a mistake in feb.
Therefore our youngest missed his chance of going to his siblings school.
We think despite our mistake they have not done the right thing and considered the interest of the child.