In a ruling made last week, Mr Justice Keehan, at the Family Division of the High Court in London, said the council did not have children's "best interests" at the heart of its decisions.
He cited the case of three siblings aged 17, 13 and 11, who cannot be identified, alongside a fourth sibling who had died aged 14 after falling ill.
The council was criticised over its failure to use a court hearing in 2013 to change the siblings' “distorted perceptions” of their family after they were taken into foster care in 2012.
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