workers he was changing. one of the ways they can do that was improving their house which we heard was in a pretty poor state and covid meant home visits were restricted, the social worker did not come to the house and instead shannon marsden sent him photos and they were photos of a sparkling house, very tidy, the flooring had changed, the garden tidied up, a very different picture to that which had prompted a social workers to act to take finley into care in the first place. covid again worked to some degree to help the couple hide what was really going on, because when lockdown eased in the summer, they could see finley again, it was under close supervision but those contact sessions were quite short and in those sessions they convinced social workers monitoring them that they had the capacity to be loving parents. covid really worked in favour of the couple. it also worked in favour, in their favour in this way, that the independent guardian from the children and family c
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