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Care proceedings, time estimates and parental vulnerabilities

Care proceedings, time estimates and parental vulnerabilities

A recent Family Court case highlights the importance of the provision of adequate time estimates for final hearings, write Sarah Buxton and Beth Armitage.

May 01, 2026

Care proceedings, time estimates and parental vulnerabilities

42Br Child

News

High Court considers application by foster parents for injunction pursuant to Human Rights Act to prevent council from removing children from their care

April 29, 2026

Family Presiding Judge provides list of considerations relevant to applications to deprive young people of liberty in unregulated placements

April 27, 2026

42BR Barristers to be joined by 4 Brick Court in summer 2026

April 23, 2026

Lord Justice Cobb named new President of Family Division

Apr 23, 2026

High Court rejects age assessment challenge against city council

Apr 23, 2026

Supreme Court hands down landmark ruling on jurisdiction to revoke adoption orders

Apr 22, 2026

Local authorities should have a "fully operational" Family Group Decision Making service by March 2027, says DfE

Apr 22, 2026

Confirmed cases of unregistered children’s homes rose by more than 372% between 2020/21 and 2024/25: report

Apr 20, 2026

Supreme Court to rule next week on power of court to revoke adoption orders

Apr 17, 2026

Government to examine deaths of care leavers following 91 notifications in 2024–25

Apr 16, 2026

New ADCS president highlights importance of developing practice of safeguarding “in and across places”

Apr 15, 2026

Southport inquiry finds “fundamental failure” by any organisation or multi agency arrangement to take ownership of risk that perpetrator posed

Apr 15, 2026

Rise in public law cases is “no justification” for councils to step back from applying pre-application strictures: Family President

Apr 08, 2026

Judge rejects application by father for injunction over plan of foster carers to move and send daughter to new school

Apr 07, 2026

Judges dismiss appeal by council over making of section 26 order

Mar 31, 2026

Public law specialist joins 1GC Family Law

Mar 30, 2026

Applications to High Court for deprivation of liberty order for children rose 12.5% in 2025

Mar 27, 2026

Children and young people in care system across England to gain new legal rights to contact with their siblings

Mar 26, 2026

Court of Appeal rules on what it means to be “father” of a child under Children Act 1989

Mar 24, 2026

High Court judge describes detention of teenage girl in room without windows on A&E ward for two-and-a-half months as “intolerable”

Mar 24, 2026

Judges grant council permission to appeal in deprivation of liberty case involving 17 year old

Mar 23, 2026

Ofsted updates framework for local authority inspections including removal of headline judgements

Mar 20, 2026

New court model to “bolster coordination” between family court and agencies such as councils and police when dealing with allegations of domestic abuse

Mar 18, 2026

Court of Appeal dismisses appeal that psychologist acted “outside limits of his expertise”

Mar 16, 2026

Council wrongly stopped allowance payments after agreeing to provide adoption support for two sisters for life, Ombudsman finds

Mar 10, 2026

New platform to give care-experienced and adopted people better access to their records to be launched later in 2026

Mar 10, 2026

Judge praises framework for post-adoption contact agreed in Family Court case

Mar 09, 2026

High Court rejects local authority plan to remove three-year-old from long term foster carers to place for adoption alongside half-sister

Mar 04, 2026

Grooming gangs whistleblower pursues judicial review over failure by government to implement recommendations of independent inquiry

Mar 03, 2026

Updated guide issued for Litigants in Person on preparing court bundles for family proceedings

Mar 02, 2026

Social Work England launches procurement of legal advisers for ‘Fitness to Practise’ cases

Mar 02, 2026

Government launches pilot of seven new “Kinship Zones” across England providing additional financial support

Feb 27, 2026

Approach in parental alienation case was “fundamentally flawed” and every agency was at fault, Family President rules

Feb 27, 2026

CIPFA warns of potential instability if cost-capping introduced in children’s residential care market

Feb 26, 2026

High Court considers judicial review of Ealing children’s centre closures

Feb 25, 2026

Local government reorganisation proposals carry “material risks” for children and children’s services: ADCS

Feb 18, 2026

Lead Family Presiding Judge consults on short notice application guidance and newborn baby protocol

Feb 17, 2026

National review calls for earlier and stronger pre‑birth safeguarding to protect vulnerable unborn babies and infants

Feb 12, 2026

Application by local authority for authorisation of deprivation of liberty for 15-year-old was not necessary, judge finds

Feb 12, 2026

Judge was not wrong to prefer long-term fostering, even if he did not follow recommended format for balancing factors: Court of Appeal

Feb 11, 2026

Consultation launched on new duty on Welsh authorities to prepare annual sufficiency plans for accommodating looked after children

Feb 10, 2026

Department for Education proposes changes to rules on fostering as part of “major recruitment drive”

Feb 05, 2026

Legal advice charity and union issue guide for social workers in Wales on working with children in asylum system

Feb 05, 2026

Features

Older children and deprivations of liberty

Older children and deprivations of liberty

April 23, 2026

Graeme Bentley sets out the key points of practice from a High Court ruling on an local authority's application for permission to invoke the inherent jurisdiction and for an order authorising it to deprive a 17 year old of her liberty.

Expert evidence in children proceedings: principles for practice and better outcomes

Expert evidence in children proceedings: principles for practice and better outcomes

April 16, 2026

Mani Singh Basi highlights key principles that should guide professionals in practice when it comes to expert evidence in children proceedings.

Children law update - Easter 2026

Children law update - Easter 2026

April 15, 2026

Michael Jones KC analyses the latest public law children cases of interest to practitioners.

Good practice in post-adoption contact

Good practice in post-adoption contact

April 15, 2026

A Family Court judge has provided key guidance on post-adoption contact. Natalie Oakes sets out the main points from the ruling.

An ‘intolerable’ deprivation of liberty – and the need for reasons

An ‘intolerable’ deprivation of liberty – and the need for reasons

Apr 15, 2026

Dispensing with notice to father

Dispensing with notice to father

Apr 02, 2026

The new PD27A: a step change in Family Court bundle and document management

The new PD27A: a step change in Family Court bundle and document management

Apr 02, 2026

DOLS and Under 16s: Insights from Medway Council v A Father

DOLS and Under 16s: Insights from Medway Council v A Father

Mar 19, 2026

Removal from kinship care

Removal from kinship care

Mar 18, 2026

Navigating the expansion of foster care

Mar 18, 2026

Adoption vs long-term fostering

Mar 13, 2026

Care leavers and redaction of records

Mar 13, 2026

“Unusual facts and procedural irregularities”

Mar 13, 2026

Disclosure to the DBS

Mar 06, 2026

Transparency in FII cases

Feb 26, 2026

Withdrawing applications for care orders

Feb 19, 2026

Children under 16 and deprivation of liberty

Feb 18, 2026

Threshold findings and final orders at Issues Resolution Hearings

Feb 06, 2026

Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Family Courts

Feb 06, 2026

Cross-border placements of children

Jan 30, 2026

Transparency and the scope of PD12R FPR 2010

Jan 30, 2026

Caution when proceeding “too quickly and cursorily to a firm decision”

Jan 21, 2026

Public children law case update – Winter 2026

Jan 21, 2026

Age assessment and interim relief

Jan 21, 2026

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