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A Council v JC & Ors [2025] EWFC 440 (11 December 2025)
Care proceedings concerning whether either parent caused fatal injuries to a toddler, alongside findings on delay, concealment, drug misuse, and L’s welfare.
Mason, Application to Set Aside, [2025] PBSA 92 (4 December 2025)
The Parole Board set aside a release direction after evidence showed an alleged relapse into drug misuse, holding the original decision would not have been made.
The court cannot identify on the balance of probabilities which parent inflicted the fatal injury to M; both parents had opportunity and have concealed evidence. Both parents' substance misuse, volatile relationship, and failure to seek timely medical attention place L at risk of significant harm. The mother cannot demonstrate sufficient change within L's timescales to safely care for him. It is in L's best interests to remain permanently with his foster carers under a Special Guardianship Order.
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Wood, Application for Reconsideration [2025] PBRA 224 (30 October 2025)
The Parole Board refused Wood’s application for reconsideration, finding no procedural unfairness or irrationality in the panel’s decision not to direct release.
The court found that the mother, with or without M, could not safely care for N due to ongoing risks from drug misuse, domestic abuse, lack of engagement with support services, and insufficient progress despite ample time. The threshold for a care order was met and no realistic support package could mitigate the risks. Delay for further assessment was not justified as it would not be in N’s best interests. Adoption was the only option that would meet N’s lifelong welfare needs; thus, care and placement orders were made and the mother’s consent to adoption dispensed with.
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A to G (Care - seven siblings), Re [2025] EWFC 393 (B) (02 October 2025)
Care and placement orders were made for seven siblings after the court found significant harm from neglect, drug use, domestic abuse, and criminality.
The threshold for making care and placement orders is crossed due to ongoing parental misuse of class A drugs, criminal activity, failure to cooperate with professionals, and aggressive behaviour. Adoption is the only appropriate lifelong welfare option for Z, as neither parent nor any other connected carer can safely meet his needs. Dispensing with parental consent is necessary and proportionate to secure Z's welfare.
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London Borough of Barnet v Mother (K) & Anor [2025] EWFC 335 (B) (22 April 2025)
The court made care and placement orders for a one-year-old child, finding the mother could not safely care for her and that adoption was necessary.
C, Re (A Child)(Fact Finding: Sexual Abuse) [2024] EWFC 372 (B) (18 November 2024)
The threshold for making a public law order is met due to proven findings of neglect, emotional harm, drug misuse, domestic abuse, sexual abuse risk, and failure to protect. Welfare considerations require a Care Order and long term foster care as the only realistic and safe option for C, with supervised contact for Mother and Maternal Grandmother.
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The threshold for making care orders under s31(2) Children Act 1989 is crossed due to findings of physical and emotional harm, exposure to sexual and domestic abuse, and risk from the mother's substance misuse and inability to regulate her emotions. The mother is not currently able to meet the children's needs or provide safe care. Long-term foster care is the only realistic option to keep the children safe. Contact with the mother is to be set at six times per year, subject to review.
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