Catholic teachers showed 'common sense' in raising alarm about schoolboy raised as girl, says judge

A council has launched an inquiry after being slow to respond to warnings that a small boy was being raised as a girl.

The boy, who cannot be named, has been removed from his mother after a High Court ruling said the mother had made her son wear dresses and act as a girl, and had caused him “significant emotional harm”.

In the judgment, Mr Justice Hayden noted that several authorities had alerted the local authority about the child, including the boy’s school. He said the local authorities lacked “common sense” when in 2014 they investigated but failed to take action.