This is nothing less than the UK’s way of declaring that NHS is equal to US medicine and re-affirming that UK parents are not in charge of their own children. The idea that the state should intervene on behalf of children when their welfare is being neglected by bad parents has evolved to the state having the final say on matters involving children with good parents as well. I thought the UK was a Constitutional Democracy. But it has devolved into a unconstitutional, politically correct nanny state.
The so-called western democracies are just frauds today.