pplication. The report prepared in accordance with Rule 14.11 and in accordance with Practice Direction 14C of the Rules should be included. It is not a requirement of the Rules for this to be filed with the application, but it will save time if it is. The statement of facts 8.8. The grounds for dispensing with consent are that the parent cannot be found, or is incapable of consenting, or that the child’s welfare requires the consent to be dispensed with. The local authority will need to provide the information necessary to their legal adviser for them to draft the statement of facts, setting out the facts on which the local authority relies to establish that one of these grounds is made out. 8.9. If it is claimed that the parent cannot be found, the statement of facts will need to provide evidence that rigorous investigations have been made by the local authority to try to find them. As well as the obvious steps of contacting the parent’s independent support worker, writing to and visiting their last known address and place of work, emailing and sending text messages other methods can be used. These include making enquiries through other members of the family, the parent’s GP, electoral rolls, telephone directories, the local housing authority and possibly by placing advertisements. 130 8.10. For the parent to be incapable of consenting, the court will need to be satisfied that they are unable to make a decision for them self in relation to the adoption ‘because of an impairment of, or disturbance in the functioning of the mind or brain’. See section 2(1) of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and note that the parent may be incapable due to their minority; it will normally fall to their solicitor to determine whether they are able to give instructions. This is likely to req