R, K & T - Children from Eastern Europe, Re (In the Matter of the Children (NI) Order 1995)

All of the parties in this judgment have been anonymised so as to protect the identity of the children to whom the proceedings relate.� Nothing must be disclosed or published without the permission of the court which might lead to their identification or the identification of their adult relatives.

[2]������ Proceedings were issued in November 2013 by the Trust.� At that point T was only a few months old.� In her case the essence of the Trust application was that it was likely that she would suffer significant harm as a result of the continuation of the inadequate parenting given to her four older siblings.

[6]������ Since the parents contend that there should be a care order for R and since they challenge the care plan for K and T but not the making of a care order they must accept as a matter of course that there should be a finding of threshold criteria within the meaning of Article 50 of the Children Order.� In these circumstances it is not necessary to scrutinise the criteria to the degree that is required in some other cases.� The Trust advanced a set of criteria when the case was in its early stages.� The parents responded by conceding some but resisting others.�

[7]������ I make the following findings in relation to threshold in respect of R, K and T.� I am satisfied that it has been proved that these children had suffered and were likely to suffer significant physical and emotional harm attributable to the care they had received and were likely to continue to receive in the care of their parents as of November 2013:

(i)������� The parents failed to ensure that the oldest four children attended school on a regular and consistent basis.