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Neutral Citation Number: [2010] EWCC 23 (Fam)
IN THE COUNTY COURT
Monday 12th April 2010
Before:-
HER HONOUR JUDGE
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Re: AS (A minor)
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ANONYMISED JUDGMENT
Approved
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J U D G M E N T
JUDGE:
1 These proceedings involve a little boy called A.M.S., who was born on [a date] of last year. The threshold for making a Care Order has been accepted and there is an agreed schedule of facts placed before me. The mother herself, Miss C.M., is of quite tender years, she is only 16 years old, and there have been assessments carried out which have concluded that in fact A should not be placed with her at this stage in his life but should be placed with his grandparents, and I am told that he has recently been placed with them. The mother, very properly and very bravely, has conceded that at this stage, although she has made a lot of progress in sorting out some of her own difficulties, she accepts and concedes that she cannot care for A herself currently and is, therefore, willing for him to be placed with his grandparents under the auspices of a Care Order to the local authority. The Guardian supports the local authority’s care plan for placement with grandparents, subject to a Care Order, and the Guardian also supports the current level of contact but the local authority and, I think, everyone else involved agrees that contact should be reviewed and that, hopefully, in the not too distant future the mother’s contact can be increased to three times weekly.
2 I thank the grandparents on A’s behalf for putting themselves forward as carers for him and for taking on the care of their grandchild; it is not always an easy thing or an easy decision to do.
3 So I make the Care Order which places A in the care of DMBC and I make no order for costs save public funding assessment, and I vacate the currently scheduled final hearing. Thank you very much.
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