What is the name of that case..

[willowthecat]

which ruled that a LEA could not pretend their own costs were zero ?

not sure but ipsea website has a page of significant cases it might be on there?

Thanks ! Will look for it there

I think there are cases both ways

some info here - not sure if this 2007 case is the last word or if more recent ones.

"Another important case on the question of resources last year was Coventry v Browne [2007]. It has long been established that the costs that Tribunal should consider under s. 9 and Sch. 27 para 3 are the ?marginal costs?, and monies that would be spent whether or not a child attended a particular provision should be ignored, (see Oxfordshire County Council v GB and Others [2001]). In Coventry v Browne it was accepted that expenditure from the schools delegated budget was to be treated as expenditure from the LEA?s budget. Thus where the school would spend more money if the child attended (even if no more money would pass from the LEA to the school in that year as a result) that additional expenditure by the school was to be taken into account when assessing the marginal cost.