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Article: Special guardianship allowances: calculation of financial support.(England and Wales)
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- Adoption & Fostering
- Article date:
- June 22, 2008
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B v London Borough of Lewisham Royal Courts of Justice (The Hon Mrs Justice Black)
17 April 2008 [2008] EWHC 738 (Admin)
This case concerns an application for Judicial Review brought by a grandmother, B, reviewing the decision of the local authority as to the level of financial support they would pay to her as the special guardian of her grand-daughter and of the legality of their special guardianship allowance scheme generally. The child had lived with B since she was six months old (at the time of the appeal she was just under three years old). The mother was unable to look after her children herself due to personal difficulties, including drug and ...