Re K [2021] EWHC 1409 (Fam)

A rehearing by the President, the Right Honourable Sir Andrew McFarlane, in May 2021, , following a successful appeal in November 2020 of Keehan J’s welfare decisions in September 2020 for placement orders. At the rehearing, there was a concessions that Keehan J’s decision to make placement orders was correct. There was an additional psychological assessment of the parents and an expert recommendation for therapy and rehabilitation, but ultimately the President made the placement orders sought by the local authority and guardian, based on there being no realistic prospect of therapy producing sufficient enduring change.