The Weekly Law Reports
[2025] 1 WLR 148
Court of Appeal
*DJ v Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council
[2024] EWCA Civ 841
2024 June 19; July 23
Lady Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill CJ, Bean, Baker LJJ
Vicarious liability— Relationship akin to employment— Foster carer— Local authority receiving child into care and boarding him out to aunt and uncle as foster carers— Child bringing claim against local authority in respect of sexual abuse perpetrated by uncle— Whether local authority vicariously liable for tortious acts of uncle— Whether relationship between local authority and aunt and uncle akin to employment—
Children Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo 6, c 43), ss 1, 13(1)