S-F (A Child) [2017] EWCA Civ 964

Appeal by a local authority, supported by the guardian and opposed by the parents, in relation to the court’s refusal to make a placement order in respect of a four-year-old boy. Sir Ernest Ryder emphasised, as a matter of good practice, the evidential importance of the ‘permanence report’ (as described in the Adoption Agencies Regulations 2005).