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JUDGE WILDBLOOD QC:
i) The circumstances of the children were allowed to drift in the pre-proceedings stage and the use of section 20 of the Children Act 1989 was too prolonged.
ii) The absence of a meeting of professionals from the Local Authority's Children's and Adults' Services in the early stages of the Local Authority's intervention. I do not understand why that meeting has not yet taken place.
iii) A lack of understanding of The Care Act 2014.
iv) There were inadequate assessments of the mother in the pre-proceedings stage. If there was insufficient information available to the local authority for it to formulate a satisfactory care plan at that stage a proper and full psychiatric assessment of the mother should have taken place within the pre-proceedings stage. It should not have been left to the time of the proceedings.
v) The apparent lack of information held by Dr. S as to exactly what has been provided to the mother by way of therapy within the community.