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Carol,
You are obviously upset about the outcome oft he case involving your grandchild.
Generally, in care proceedings there are a lot of assessments, so presumably the child's mum was assessed, had the opportunity to name you or other family members as possible carers etc. The parties to the proceedings, such as mum and dad, would have the opportunity to make statements and give evidence.

You seem to be saying that the wrong child's records were provided to the court and that the court did not see your grandchild's records. If that is the case then obviously that is not acceptable, but it sounds extremely strange that no-one picked up on this during the proceedings.

We you a party to the proceedings or are you basing your comments on what you were told by your daughter?

The only situation I can think of where a court would not allow an error like this to be used to re-open a case would be where the error would not have made any difference to the outcome of the case .

It's normal for care proceedings to involve significant levels of assessment of the parents (or other potential carers) and for parents and their lawyers to see any reports and records.
Even if what happened was that an injury was attributed to a baby accidentally hitting his head on a fridge door, as opposed to suffering spasms, that would not normally trigger care proceedings and had the mother (or father) at any point said to their solicitor "He had issues due to being injured at birth" those would have been included in any report.

Courts can make mistakes, no-one is perfect, but it is implausible that mistakes of the kind you seem to suggest, were made at every level from FPC to Court of Appeal and that no-one picked up on them at any point.

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