Iain Large, specialist barrister in both public law children proceedings and private law disputes publishes a case summary for Family Law Week discussing Z (A Child- DOLS Lack of Secure Placement) [2020] EWHC 1827 (Fam).

Judgment of Judd J authorising the deprivation of liberty of a 13-year-old child where no regulated secure accommodation was available and the only viable holding placement, acknowledged to be ‘sub-optimal’, was a council property rented and staffed by the local authority.