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[2023] WLR(D) 350
Court of Appeal
In re JW (Child at Home under Care Order)
[2023] EWCA Civ 944
2023 March 14; Aug 4
Sir Andrew McFarlane P, Macur, Coulson LJJ
Children— Care proceedings— Care or supervision order— Children placed at home with mother under interim supervision order— Husband subject to sexual harm prevention order— Local authority concerned mother failing to adhere to safety plan requiring husband to move out of home— Judge granting local authority’s application for full care order with children continuing to live at home— Whether judge erring— Whether necessary to establish exceptional reasons before making care order with children living at home— Common approach to be applied to such orders—
Children Act 1989 ( c 41), ss 22C, 31(2)
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Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 ( anaw 4), s 81