AB and Another, Regina (on The Application of) v The London Borough of Haringey: Admn 13 Mar 2013

The claimant parents, themselves child protection workers, sought judicial review of a decision by the respondent to institute a section 47 enquiry as to whether their child was at risk of significant harm, after an anonymous allegation.
Held: There had been several serious errors in the procedures adopted by the respondents. There never was a section 47 enquiry decision and LBH’s insistence that one was taken is both erroneous and unlawful, and ‘, had it been taken, would have been wholly unreasonable and unsustainable since it would have failed to take account most of the crucial matters required of a section 47 decision and there was no reason for taking the decision in the way it is now suggested it was taken.’
Anthony Thornton J
[2013] EWHC 416 (Admin)
Bailii
Children Act 1989 47
England and Wales

Updated: 09 July 2021; Ref: scu.471738