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Child care proceedings—overview
Under the Children Act 1989 (ChA 1989), local authority (LA) social services departments are responsible for making sure that children are safe and suitably looked after by their parents, or by the person caring for them on a day to day basis. LAs must investigate any child within their local area where they have cause to suspect the child is enduring, or at risk of enduring, significant harm.
Preliminary steps to care proceedings
If an LA becomes involved with a family in which the children are at risk, it will work with the family and involve relevant agencies and professionals as appropriate. See Practice Note: Accommodating children under section 20-best practice.
Before any court application is made, a child protection case conference should be held, to which parents/carers, relevant professionals, organisations and agencies are invited, to consider whether the child could properly be protected without a care order being made.
The pre-proceedings protocol of the Public Law Outline (PLO) (now set out in FPR 2010, PD 12A) should be properly followed accordingly. See Practice Note: Child protection conferences.
Typically, an LA may start these investigations for any of the following reasons:
- when directed to do so by the court
- where there is a persistent failure...
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