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Sometimes, it isn’t possible for children to remain safely at home.

When this happens, Hearings must sure they remain with a consistent caregiver , whenever this is possible. This means that they should stay in the same place with the same caregiver, so they don’t have to move several times.

Children’s Hearings must question and test the extent to which implementing authorities are keeping to their legal and policy requirements around providing homes for children which are:

  • consistent,
  • safe,
  • protected, and
  • loving.

Implementing authorities must make sure the legal tests that exist in statute are being exercised fully.

Where relationships have broken down, it should be possible for conversations to happen around rebuilding them— in a way that’s in the best interests of children and their families. An inquisitorial approach to the Children’s Hearings System must allow for this.