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The High Court authorised ST’s deprivation of liberty, holding the restrictions were necessary and proportionate while a step-down plan and wider care arrangements were progressed.
Threshold criteria for care and placement orders are met; adoption is necessary and proportionate to secure permanence and stability for the children; family members are not ready or able to provide care meeting the children's needs; direct contact arrangements are endorsed but no s.26 order is made as Local Authority is committed to contact.
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Adoption is necessary for K's welfare due to her need for permanence and stability, mother's unresolved trauma and inconsistent contact, and the uncertainty and risk of harm if returned to mother's care; threshold criteria are met and parental consent is dispensed with.
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London Borough of Tower Hamlets v UV & Anor [2025] EWFC 260 (B) (11 June 2025)
The Family Court made care and placement orders for AB, dispensed with the mother’s consent, and dismissed a kinship special guardianship application.
Kent County Council v M & Ors (Rev1) [2025] EWFC 155 (B) (01 June 2025)
Care proceedings about four children. The court ordered a staged return to the mother over four months, with the boys first, under a 12-month supervision order.
The threshold for making final care orders was met due to proven facts of lack of supervision, failure to seek medical attention, sexual and physical abuse, exposure to cannabis, inappropriate chastisement, and controlling behaviour by the father. The welfare of the children required placement in long-term foster care, refusal of father’s contact, and a section 91(14) order restricting father’s applications for four years to protect therapeutic support and prevent risk of harm.
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Birmingham City Council v AB & Ors [2014] EWHC 3090 (Fam) (18 July 2014)
The court granted care and placement orders for three children after their mother was murdered by their father, rejecting return to their maternal grandmother.
Kirsty X v Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council [2013] EW Misc 7 (CC) (5 July 2013)
County Court negligence claim against a local authority over delayed removal from parents and lack of therapy failed under the Bolam standard.
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