F, Re (Assessment of Birth Family)

Ms Reagan Persaud (instructed by Local Authority Solicitor) for the Local Authority Ms Sara Anning (instructed by Wilkinson Woodward Solicitors) for the Mother The father was not present or represented. Ms June Kelly (of JWP Solicitors) for the child, by her Children's Guardian Hearing date: 1 April 2021 ____________________

i) by the Court of Appeal in an analogous situation involving notification of wider family of a baby who a mother/parent wishes to relinquish for adoption ( Re A, B, C (Adoption: Notification of Fathers and Relatives) [2020] EWCA Civ 41 ) (' Re A, B, C ')

ii) in a previous decision of mine, concerning family assessment more generally, namely Re H (Care and Adoption Assessment of Wider Family) [2019] EWFC 10 (' Re H ').

i) they are bound to the mother and to F by a relationship of consanguinity; the legal severance of the family relationship has been "socially undone" by their recent contact;

iii) they are interested in F; at this stage, F's 'birth' maternal grandmother has not indicated any wish to care for F, but wishes to have contact;