Procedural Unfairness Stops Council Care Action
26th February, 2019When the mother of a teenage daughter who had been taken into care in 2016 with her agreement had another child, the local council's social services department became involved. The woman's daughter had been removed from home as a result of her mother's relationship with the baby's father. As is often the case in such situations, the family relationship was dysfunctional, having been described as being 'characterised by alcohol consumed by both parties, but more important and additionally, alcohol which fuelled regular domestic violence within the household'. Following the birth...