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InterimCareOrder

Page history last edited by PBworks 17 years, 5 months ago

The court can make an interim care order only if it decides there are good reasons to believe that a child has been significantly harmed or is likely to be significantly harmed, and that an interim care order is the best thing for the child. The order can last for up to eight weeks to begin with, and can be renewed for four-week periods after that.

 

When social services make an application for an interim care order, they must have prepared an interim care plan that sets out where and with whom the child should live until the final hearing. This plan will include arrangements for contact between the child and the people who are important in the child’s life. Social services will ask the court to agree to this plan.

 

An interim care order means that social services share parental responsibility for your child with the parents (and anyone else who might have ParentalResponsibility. This includes the power to decide where he or she will live, even if they don’t agree with the decision. The court can also make an ‘exclusion requirement’ alongside the interim care order, which can force an adult to leave the child’s home if the court believes this person is a danger to the child. However, this can happen only if the remaining parent or carer agree to make sure the person does leave, and stays away.

 

Social services must show that they have discussed the care plan with the parents and the child (if this is possible) and that the plan will match your child’s racial, cultural and religious heritage. If the parents do not agree with the care plan and feel that someone in the family could look after the child up to the final hearing, the family should tell social services, their solicitor and the court so that the court can consider what is best for the child.

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