Child and Family Agency obliged to provide reasonable information to family prior to convening case conference

Judicial review - application by parents and children where two other children in care - decision by Child and Family Agency (CFA) to convene a case conference leading to application for supervision order - whether applicants had set out facts from which an arguable case could be made that they were entitled to relief from court - claim by child to have been assaulted - pending criminal charges - earlier findings that parents had coached their children for their responses to social workers - family moved to different county - transfer of social work file - invitation to child protection conference - whether social services entitled to take such steps in absence of new information - Child and Family Agency Act, 2013 - Child Care Act, 1991 - role of CFA - “Policy & Procedures for responding to Allegations of Child Abuse & Neglect”, published by CFA, 2014 - code for investigations - co-ordination of actions where criminal investigation pending - power to investigate - withdrawal by CFA of pending applications and convening of new case conference - whether applicants had exhausted options prior to judicial review application.