R (On the application of M) v Suffolk County Council [2006] EWHC 2366 (Admin)

This is an application for judicial review of a local authority's decision to stop direct payments to the claimant to help provide support for a child with Down's Syndrome. The grounds of that decision were that the payments were being used to place the child in a specialist boarding school and that under regulation 7(3) of the Children Act the local authority was precluded from paying for residential accommodation under these regulations. The application succeeded.