Q:
09.22 When calculating the extra cost of a parental placement for EA1996 section 9 purposes, is the LA/FTT only concerned with one year’s costs?
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- 14 Feb 2022
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No
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No. When considering the cost balance for the purposes of EA1996 s9, the LA/FTT should look at the effect over time of the choice of placement – thus the FTT was wrong not to take into account the fact that, at the parentally preferred school, a year extra would be needed to complete GCSEs: Southampton v G [2002] EWHC 1516.
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