Judge Clifford Bellamy said the council had "fallen below accepted standards" in its decision-making process. He also said the council had not taken steps to evaluate information in relation to the children's involvement with health services and that it had relied completely on a medical report, when it should have raised shortcomings in the report with its author.
He ordered the council to pay £100,000 towards the parents’ court costs after it withdrew its care application.
The judgement was made in February, but the judge has only just allowed the council to be named. The council had argued against being named because it was "concerned that this family could now be identified in the community and this could cause them harm".
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