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In the family justice system, we are dealing daily with the human condition. How people respond to stressful situations is part of that condition, is normal and is to be expected.
In Lancashire County Council v M and others (Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group intervening) [2021] EWHC 2844 (Fam) care proceedings had been issued after a private care group providing professional care to a seriously disabled 12 year old boy, W, felt they could not continue to offer a service in the face of perceived resistance and interference from W’s parents. The care staff felt ‘undermined and belittled’ and the parents’ behaviour at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital, where it was planned to admit W for investigation, was described as ‘highly concerning’, although they were ‘appropriate and respectful on the ward’.
The parents were shocked when the care group withdrew, believing they had an excellent working relationship, the mother accepting she had been emotive through concern and passion.
Dr Kate Hellin, psychologist, was instructed to provide a psychological assessment of the parents in the hope of better understanding their interactions with professionals. In his judgment Hayden J described the report that resulted as a ‘landmark report, the analysis of which requires wider dissemination’.Read the full article here.
