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The Care Plan

The Guardian in Care Proceedings - FJG Solicitors Colchester Essex UKWhatever Orders the Court makes, and even if it makes no Orders, it must approve a Care Plan for the children. This plan may have taken some months to create, and produce, and should be the subject of detailed discussion with the parents, the Guardian and all other parties. The Court cannot impose its own Care Plan, it can only approve the plan put forward by Social Services or reject it.

There is widespread concern by Judges that their powers of approval or rejection of a plan are not adequate, there is also constant concern about Care Plans presented to the Court which are never implemented after the final Court Order. For this reason, the Court of Appeal has recommended that in some cases the plan should be brought back automatically for review if it cannot be fulfilled.

Care Plans are a detailed issue, and often there is no dispute that the Court should make an Order, it is the type of Order, and the Plan behind it, that is important.