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Author: Community Care Inform

Updated Date: 17 July 2024

Publication Date: 1 May 2024

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Community Care Inform Children understands the importance of legal literacy among social workers and others working in children’s services. This is why we have invested in bringing you expert-written case law summaries that set out the implications of court rulings for your practice. This page will be updated as we publish new summaries.

If you are looking for other legal resources such as guides to the law on different topics and digests of legislation, please see our legal hub. You may also be interested in the court skills knowledge and practice hub.

This hub helps you with point 8 : the law and the family and youth justice systems of the post-qualifying standards: knowledge and skills statement for child and family practitioners.

2024

Adoption and maintaining contact with the birth family: Re R & C [2024] EWCA Civ 1302

Female genital mutilation and cultural competence: AS v London Borough of Waltham Forest & Anor [2024] EWHC 2808 (Fam)

Circumcision, parental responsibility, cultural identity and the welfare of the child: G [2024] EWHC 2363 (Fam)

Local authority liability for kinship care foster carers: DJ v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council & Anor [2024] EWCA Civ 841

Care orders and local authorities consenting to a deprivation of liberty: Re J [2024] EWHC 1690 (Fam)

Child arrangements proceedings and domestic abuse: SR v RT [2024] EWFC 103 (B)

Utilising the Family Drug and Alcohol Court in domestic abuse cases: London Borough A v A & Ors [2024] EWFC 46

Deprivation of liberty, disabled children and Cheshire West: Re SM [2024] EWHC 493 (Fam

2023

Disabled children, short breaks and section 20: R (TS) v Hackney [2023] EWHC 3063 (Admin)

Child protection and the common law duty of care: HXA v Surrey County Council & Anor [2023] UKSC 52

Psychological assessments in care proceedings: E (A Child) (Care and Placement Orders) [2023] EWCA Civ 721

Termination of an 11-year-old’s pregnancy, Gillick competence and child protection: A Health Board v AZ [2023] EWHC 2517

Interim care orders – are they ‘necessary and proportionate’?: Re J & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 1266

Infant vaccination, religious objection and care orders: Re WSP (A Child) [2023] EWHC 2622 (Fam)

Deprivation of liberty to protect a child from criminal exploitation: EBY (A Child) [2023] EWHC 2494 (Fam)

Termination of an 11-year-old’s pregnancy, Gillick competence and child protection: A Health Board v AZ [2023] EWHC 2517

Care orders v supervision orders when a child is placed at home: JW [2023] EWCA Civ 944

Long term use of section 20 and the care order threshold: Re S (A Child) & W (A Child) [2023] EWCA Civ 1

Notifying the birth father of adoption proceedings: M [2023] EWFC 17

Fabricated or induced illness and emergency protection orders: E and H [2023] EWFC 69

Mobile phone records and abuse allegations: P, H-L (Children) (Rev1) [2023] EWCA Civ 206

Transgender surgery abroad and the inherent jurisdiction: S [2023] EWHC 347 (Fam)

The interface between the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act: Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust v JS & Anor [2023] EWCOP 12 and [2023] EWCOP 33

Unborn baby, HIV risk, and parental consent: Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v C & Anor [2023] EWHC 239 (Fam)

Coercive control, contact and parental responsibility: F v M (Rev1) [2023] EWFC 5

Restricting access to mobile phone and social media – deprivation of liberty?: Manchester City Council v P (Rev1) [2023] EWHC 133 (Fam)

2022

Parental alienation and care proceedings: Warwickshire County Council v The Mother & Ors [2022] EWHC 2146 (Fam)

Section 91(14) ‘barring orders’: A Local Authority v F & Ors [2022] EWFC 127

Withdrawing care proceedings: Lancashire County Council v M & Ors [2022] EWHC 2900 (Fam)

Foreign convictions against mother’s partner and care proceedings: W-A (Children) [2022] EWCA Civ 1118

Fact-finding hearings and section 31 threshold: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council v VW & Ors [2022] EWFC 83

Adoption placements and medical requirements: Somerset County Council v NHS Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group & Ors [2022] EWFC 31

Deprivation of liberty of 16/17 year olds and court applications: KL (a minor: deprivation of liberty) [2022] EWCOP 24

Negligence, human rights and whether a child has a ‘right’ to a care order: AB v Worcestershire County Council & Anor [2022] EWHC 115 (QB)

2021

Deprivation of liberty, complex needs, no suitable placement: A County Council v A Mother & Others [2021] EWHC 3303

Covid vaccine, parental objections, capacity and best interests: Royal Borough of Greenwich v IOSK & Ors [2021] EWCOP 65

Lawfulness of unregistered placements: A Mother v Derby City Council & Anor [2021] EWCA Civ 1867

C (Looked After Child) (Covid-19 Vaccination) EWHC 2993 (Fam)

Unregistered placements, the inherent jurisdiction and non-compliance with the President’s Practice Guidance: Derby CC v CK & Ors [2021] EWHC 2931 (Fam)

Puberty blockers and Gillick competence: Bell v Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWCA Civ 1363

Authorising deprivation of liberty in settings banned by regulations: MBC v AM & Ors (DOL Orders for Children Under 16) [2021] EWHC 2472 (Fam)

Using the inherent jurisdiction to deprive children of liberty in unregulated placements: Re T (A Child) [2021] UKSC 35

Depriving a child of liberty in an inappropriate setting: Wigan BC v Y [2021] EWHC 1982 (Fam)

Residential placements and the right to manifest one’s religion: A and B (Minors: placement, faith) [2021] EWHC 455 (Admin)

Assessing a child’s needs for Mental Health Act aftercare: R (AK) v London Borough of Islington [2021] EWHC 301 (Admin)

2020

Covid-19 and adjournment of care proceedings: Lancashire County Council v M (COVID-19 Adjournment Application) (Rev 1) [2020] EWFC 43

Covid-19 and rights to a fair trial in care proceedings: C (Children: Covid-19: Representation) [2020] EWCA Civ 734

Covid-19 and contact with children in care: D-S (Contact with Children in Care: Covid-19) [2020] EWCA Civ 1031

Deprivation of liberty and transport: Re Z (A Child: Deprivation of Liberty: Transition Plan) [2020] EWHC 3038 (Fam)

Capacity to accept or refuse care, support and education: A Local Authority v GP [2020] EWCOP 56

2019

Deprivation of liberty and parental consent: Re D (A Child) [2019] UKSC 42

2018

Response to parent’s application to discharge a care order: GM v Camarthenshire County Council & LLM [2018]

Deprivation of liberty involving children: Re A-F (Children) [2018] EWHC 138 (Fam) and Re A-F (Children) (No.2) [2018] EWHC 2129 (Fam)

Special guardianship orders or care orders: Re P-S Children [2018]

Older significant cases

Transferring care proceedings abroad – best interests analysis: Re N [2016]

Section 7 reports – judicial guidance: D v E [2016]

Pre-birth planning and interim care orders – judicial guidance: Nottingham CC v LM and others [2016]

Supporting parents with learning disabilities: Re D (a child) (no. 3) [2016]

Deprivation of liberty: AB (a child) [2015]

Habitual residence: SR (a child) [2015]

Older significant cases continued

Meaning of “nothing else will do” in adoption cases: Re M-H (a child) [2014]

Traveller children and section 17 support: R (on app of J) v Worcestershire County Council [2014]

Deprivation of liberty: the Cheshire West case [2014]

Evidence for adoption plans, balance sheets: Re B-S (children) [2013]

Adoption – “nothing else will do”: Re B (a child) [2013]

Previous removal of parents’ other children: F (children) [2010]

Emergency protection orders: Re X [2006]

Supervision orders: Re O [2001]

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