A MUM has been told she can have her son back after he was put into care when she was branded unfit for not taking him for ice cream.

The unnamed boy, eight, was taken off his mum and put into foster care after a social worker for Carmarthenshire social services said the boy's emotional needs were not being met - citing him not being taken for a treat and not getting the haircut he wanted.

2 The hearing took place at the High Court in London Credit: Alamy

Mr Justice Mostyn, sitting at the High Court, yesterday said the social worker's criticisms were "utterly insubstantial" and "obviously inconsequential".

The case was brought to the High Court after a lower ranking Swansea judge had ruled the boy should be handed over to foster parents following a 44-page application by the local authority.

But Mostyn attacked the social worker's criticisms at the London hearing and said that after going over the "swathes of text" it was "very hard" to figure out what the youngster's mum had done wrong.

Mostyn overruled the decision to move the youngster into care, saying there was no evidence her parenting had been "deficient".

2 Justice Mostyn branded the complaints 'utterly inconsequential' Credit: Photoshot

He said: "The local authority's evidence in opposition to the mother's application was contained in an extremely long, 44-page, witness statement made by the social worker.

"This witness statement was very long on rhetoric and generalised criticism but very short indeed on any concrete examples of where and how the mother's parenting had been deficient.

"Indeed, it was very hard to pin down within the swathes of text what exactly was being said against the mother.

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"Her response was that until prompted by the local authority mother had not spent sufficient one-to-one time with (her son) and had failed on one occasion to take him out for an ice cream.

"This struck me as utterly insubstantial criticism."

He added: "A further criticism in this vein was that the mother had failed to arrange for his hair to be cut in the way that he liked.

"Again, this is obviously inconsequential."

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