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Children left with harmful parents because of lack of foster carers

Children left with harmful parents because of lack of foster carers

by Julie Doughty | Aug 18, 2025 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

A local authority (LA) applied for care orders for six children in March 2025. At the case management hearing (CMH) I attended in April,  and wrote on here: ‘Completing care proceedings in less that 26 weeks’, a strict timetable was set out by the judge to ensure...
Completing care proceedings in less than 26 weeks

Completing care proceedings in less than 26 weeks

by Julie Doughty | Apr 25, 2025 | Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Open Reporting

I went to Cardiff Family Court as a legal blogger in two care cases this week. Reporting on them might give an inkling into how the most recent ‘refocus’ on the Public Law Outline (PLO) 26 weeks time limit is working out in the real world. We wrote about the refocus...
Re XY Twins – another family court judgment names an individual to warn parents

Re XY Twins – another family court judgment names an individual to warn parents

by Julie Doughty | Feb 17, 2025 | Cases, Comment, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

Last week,  we wrote on a family court judgment about children that had been published on TNA and BAILII naming an individual party, which we said almost never happened. That’s because of the strict privacy and anonymity rules intended to protect children who are...
Completing care proceedings in less than 26 weeks

Injuries to a baby: Part 2 – the court’s decisions

by Julie Doughty | Jan 29, 2025 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot

This post follows on from the first part of my report on care proceedings in Cardiff Family Court published here. I was uncertain as to exactly what the judge would decide about who had caused Claire’s injuries. There were no Perry Mason moments of discovery and...
Completing care proceedings in less than 26 weeks

Injuries to a baby: Part 1 – a mystery to be solved by the family court

by Julie Doughty | Jan 29, 2025 | Analysis, Cases, FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Reporting Pilot

One evening in autumn 2023, a young couple took their five month old baby to an emergency hospital where she was diagnosed with numerous physical injuries (some very serious) which the parents couldn’t explain. Local authority children’s services were called in and...
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