Hertfordshire County Council has refused to disclose how much it spent fighting a High Court case against the parent of a child with SEND last year.
In the case, a judge found that the council is acting unlawfully every time it fails to complete a child's EHCP within 20 weeks.
The Freedom of Information request did not ask for any details beyond the monetary cost to the council. The council said that this"does not reflect a cost", and that calculating the time spent against the yearly earnings of staff members involved would"not reflect a true figure of the cost of the matter". They confirmed that they"do not hold the information" requested about internal costs.
"It would have been cheaper to send the child and their family for assessment to America with a week's trip to Disneyland thrown in - that would have saved £70,000 at least!""It might explain why we have just seen an increase by HCC of nearly 5 per cent in our council tax bills."
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