FIVE children have been taken from their mother after a judge heard of her partner's violent past having been convicted of assaulting a baby.

Social workers raised concerns for the siblings over fears of the partner's 'eruptive anger'.

The siblings were moved for their safety as family court judge Eleanor Owens heard the case in Oxford.

Judge Owens has approved a plan to place the children into the care of Oxfordshire County Council pending decisions about their long-term future.

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She was told that the woman's partner had, a decade ago, been jailed after being convicted of causing grievous bodily harm to a baby from a previous relationship.

It was within a social work report that it had also referred to the partner's "eruptive anger".

The children were living with their mother and she had promised social workers that her partner would have no "unsupervised contact" with the children.

But the team were forced to intervene after discovering evidence that revealed he had been staying at the family home.

Judge Owens made the decision to move the children in to council care in March, following the private hearing at a family court in Oxford.

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The detail of the decision emerged after two Court of Appeal judges considered the case at a public Court of Appeal hearing in London.

Lord Justice Peter Jackson and Lord Justice Baker have published a ruling on a number of legal issues and outlined background of the case.

They did not identify the family involved but said social services bosses at Oxfordshire County Council had taken on the responsibility for the children's welfare.

Appeal judges said Judge Owens was due to further consider the case in the near future to determine the long-term plan for the children.