T (A Child : Early Permanence Placement) [2015] EWCA Civ 983 (24 September 2015)

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Re: T (A Child : Early Permanence Placement) [2015] EWCA Civ 983 (24 September 2015)

Interesting case in which prospective adopters become foster carers and then paternal family then are assessed post birth and are considered appropriate for the child. However, as proceedings have started the foster carers then seek and are granted leave to ask for adoption despite the positive assessment of the paternal grandparents. The court decided that the prospective adopters application for party to the care case is to be set aside and notes that the information that they received that was more or less telling them it was a dead certainty for them to adopt the child was inaccurate to the reality on the ground. Always worth a read of cases where the head of the Family division of the appeal court is involved.