Herefordshire Council v AB 2018
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWFC/HCJ/2018/10.html
This is the case referred to in my earlier blog posts, and in this news story in the Guardian
The Guardian piece is not overselling it.
This judgment concerns two unconnected young people who have been accommodated pursuant to the provisions of The Children Act 1989, section 20 (the 1989 Act) for a very considerable period of time. Their treatment by Herefordshire Council (‘the local authority’) represents two of the most egregious abuses of section 20 accommodation it has yet been my misfortune to encounter as a judge.
May as well open with the key bit
In the case of one of the 42 children accommodated by the local authority referred to above, the mother withdrew her consent for her child to be accommodated in 2013. The local authority not only did not return the child to her mother’s care, it effectively did nothing…
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