Of 1,389 DoL applications issued by the court in the 12 months to July this year, 147 were repeat applications, statistics from the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory (FJO) shows.
Its report notes that repeat applications are made to “to extend or vary an existing order (eg, if the child moves placement or additional restrictions on their liberty are sought)”.
The DoL court was launched by Sir Andrew MacFarlane, president of the Family Division of the Royal Courts of Justice, in July last year.
During its first 12 months, a total of 1,249 children have been subject to DoL applications including a small number of applications for sibling groups.
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