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I don't have any direct experience of this, but I think that anyone thinking of going to judicial review needs to think very carefully about it. If the area to be tested is one of those "grey ones" where LEAs do different things, then an adverse decision at judicial review could make case law which will have a huge knock-on effect. Consider an example of someone who wanted to take an LEA to judicial review because they would not pay for specialist tutorial support for dyslexic students. If the court's decision was against the person bringing the judicial review, ie if they ruled that specialist tutorial support was not an appropriate use of the DSA, then all other LEAs would say that they could not fund this support. They may also say that they would not fund such support for deaf students. If you are thinking of doing this you should get some first class advice and consider what effect an adverse decision would have on everyone else. Sorry to be such a misery but my husband is a barrister who does a lot of judicial review. I have discussed this with him in the past and this is the advice he has given me. Caroline Davies Disabilities Manager University of North London [log in to unmask] 0171 753 5145 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%