Re S (A Child) (Post-Adoption Contact – No. 2) [2026] EWFC 202 (B)

Adoption application in respect of S, heard with applications by both birth parents and S's maternal grandmother for post-adoption contact. The court made the adoption order but declined to make a contact order. The two outcomes were not inconsistent: S's birth relationships remained part of the child's identity, but the court was not satisfied that S's welfare required the adoptive family to be bound by an enforceable contact arrangement.