The Weekly Law Reports
[2020] 2 WLR 568
Court of Appeal
In re
B (A Child) (Association of Lawyers for Children intervening)
[2019] EWCA Civ 2025
2019 Sept 10; Nov 21
Floyd, Baker, Green LJJ
Children— Child in care— Secure accommodation— Local authority wishing to move child from unapproved property to property approved for use as secure accommodation— Authority applying for order authorising child to be kept in secure accommodation— Whether unapproved property itself “secure accommodation”— Whether child’s welfare and proportionality “relevant criteria” for making secure accommodation order—
Children Act 1989 (c 41), s 25 (as amended by Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (SI 2016/413), reg 86 and Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c 16), s 10, Sch 1, para 2)
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 5, 8
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