FD24P00406 - [2025] EWHC 2836 (Fam)

Fecha: 30-Oct-2025

Relevant legal framework

Relevant legal framework

41.

There is no real dispute between the parties. The court’s paramount consideration is S’ welfare and in considering his welfare the court must adopt a holistic approach (see Re G (A Child)(Care Order: Proportionality) [2013] EWCA Civ 965 [49]-[51] and [54]).

42.

As the then President, Sir James Munby, in Re B-S [2013] EWCA Civ 1147 at [44] observed

‘We emphasise the words ‘global, holistic evaluation’. This point is crucial. The judicial task is to evaluate all the options, undertaking a global, holistic and (see Re G para 51) multi-faceted evaluation of the child’s welfare which take into account all the negatives and the positions, all the pros and cons, of each option’

43.

Whilst technically the welfare checklist is not applicable to these wardship proceedings, the court can consider the facts in the Children Act’s list by analogy and as a useful analysis tool: Re NY (Abduction: Inherent Jurisdiction) [2019] UKSC 49.