The applicants, foster parents of a child, applied to the Child and Family Services Review Board to review the Children's Aid Society's decision refusing their application to adopt the child.
The Society had refused the application because it planned to place the child for adoption together with a biological sibling, whom the applicants could not adopt.
The Board considered the best interests of the child under the Child and Family Services Act, weighing the importance of sibling relationships against the child's emotional vulnerability and secure attachment to the applicants.
The Board found that the trauma of separating the child from the foster parents and a fictive sibling would be unacceptable.
The Board rescinded the Society's decision, allowing the applicants to adopt the child.
