Facts: Mrs Conde was the mother of two young children and a Spanish national. Lambeth declined to provide her with accommodation and support under section 17 of the Children Act 1989, on the basis that she was ineligible by virtue of Schedule 3 to the Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Act 2002. Mrs Conde claimed that the exception in paragraph 3 of Schedule 3 applied, in that it was necessary to provide her with support to avoid a breach of her rights under EU law, in that she was a work-seeker, who required accommodation in order to secure employment and that it was discriminatory to refuse to provide it.

Judgment: Collins J held that accommodation was not sufficiently linked with facilitating access to employment to fall within the scope of EU rights afforded to work-seekers and that, in any event, there had not been any discrimination, because Mrs Conde had not been treated differently to a work-seeker who had arrived in Lambeth from a different part of the UK.