F (A Child) (placement order and failure by Local Authority to contact wider birth family) [2025] EWFC 259 (B)

This case involved public law proceedings concerning a 17-month-old baby boy (F). The Local Authority were successful in their application for Care and Placement Orders, which were supported by the Father and the Guardian, but were ordered to pay the maternal grandmother’s costs due to their failure to contact and assess the child’s wider family.