Section 53: When a Child Can Be Taken into Care
53.Care order
(1)A family and children court may, on the application of a probation and social welfare officer or an authorised person, make a care order or an interim care order placing a child in the care of the warden of an approved home or with foster parents.
(2)An application for a care order may only be made—
(a)after all possible alternative methods of assisting the child have been tried without success and the significant harm from which the child is suffering or is likely to suffer requires his or her removal from where he or she is living; or
(b)where the danger to which the child is exposed is so severe as to require his or her immediate removal from where he or she is living.
Plain English Summary
A child can be removed from their home and placed in an approved home or with foster parents only after all other methods of help have been tried with...
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