A report by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman highlights a string of failures by the council to support the siblings, both of whom had significant needs requiring specialist support and respite placements.
The report says the children, V and W, who had previously spent time in foster care, went to live with their aunt and uncle after they obtained a Special Guardianship Order (SGO) in November 2014.
It details how their aunt and uncle did not attend court and did not see the support plan that was proposed for the children until it had been finalised.
The council's plan set out financial support for the couple "equivalent to basic boarding out rates for foster carers" but there was nothing to suggest the children would need any "therapeutic services".
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