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Child placed with paternal grandparents under supervision order due to mother's ongoing instability and protection concerns.
The Society brought a status review application regarding a young child who had been in interim society care.
The mother sought the return of the child to her care, while the Society, the father, and the Office of the Children's Lawyer supported placement with the paternal grandparents.
The court found that the child continued to be in need of protection due to the mother's ongoing issues with intimate partner violence, adult conflict, mental health, and poor decision-making, including involvement in a serious car accident.
The court concluded that the mother could not provide a stable and safe environment and ordered the child placed in the care of the paternal grandparents under a six-month supervision order, with specified access for both parents.
Physical access temporarily suspended due to parent's failure to demonstrate compliance with COVID-19 protocols.
The respondent mother brought a motion to vary the applicant's access to their seven-year-old child.
The respondent raised concerns that the applicant, who works in the sex trade, was not adhering to COVID-19 safety protocols with clients, thereby putting the child at risk.
The court found that the applicant failed to provide sufficient evidence of compliance with COVID-19 protocols, such as wearing masks and social distancing.
The court concluded that this constituted a material change in circumstances and temporarily suspended the applicant's physical access, replacing it with video access, until the applicant could provide an undertaking and a realistic proposal to comply with COVID-19 protocols.
