The theme of National Adoption Week 2022, and of the CoramBAAF members week, has been relationships. While these are focused on the relationships around the child, it must be remembered that all such relationships need to be underpinned by a legal framework. Establishing that framework requires the courts, local authorities and other parties to work together to make an order which best provides for the welfare of the child.
Making a care order requires the court to hand over all responsibility for the care of a child to the local authority, and for this there must be a relationship based on trust. The court has to trust that the local authority will implement their care plan to the best of their ability. If the care plan becomes impossible, the court has to trust that the local authority will put into place an appropriate alternative. This principle was put to the test in In Re S (FC) In Re S & Ors In Re W & Ors (Conjoined Appeals) [2002] UKHL 10.
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