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Benefit cap case going to the Supreme Court?
“Claimant made homeless by the benefit cap turns to Supreme Court over Westminster Council attempt at ‘social cleansing’ ....”
So Westminster Social Care have rehoused the children but not mum. They are splitting the family. It is difficult to see this as being a bad mum, there appears no neglect or harm, arguably she is a good mum for wanting the best for her children in terms of continuity of schooling within Westminster….
I suppose if social care had funded the whole of the familty to stay in Westminster, this would indirectly undermine the Benefit Cap….
Nevertherless the Childrens Act focusses on the needs of children, not on the logic of Government policy.
Should the family have been split, or should they have been accommodated together…. at least to the outcome of the legal process?
I would gess that keeping the family together would still have been a cheaper option than arranging for the children to be taken into care…..??