K, Re and Re R (Unregulated Placement : Authorisation Pursuant to the Court's Inherent Jurisdiction : Prohibition)

��For the purposes of the 2000 Act, an establishment is excepted from being a residential family centre if�

(a) it is a health service hospital, an independent hospital, an independent clinic or a care home;

(c) the main purpose of the establishment is to provide accommodation together with other services or facilities to adults, and the fact that those adults may be parents, or may be accompanied by their children, is incidental to the main purpose of the establishment."

'The parents owe the child a duty to give or to withhold consent in the best interests of the child and without regard to their own interests.

The Court, when exercising the parens patriae jurisdiction, takes over the rights and duties of the parents, although this is not to say that the parents would be excluded from the decision making process. Nevertheless, in the end, responsibility for the decision, whether to give or withhold consent, is that of the Court alone".