His family have been told his life-sustaining treatment will be withdrawn from 10am on Saturday, according to the Christian Concern campaign, which is supporting them. But health chiefs say there will be no changes to Archie’s care until the outstanding legal issues are resolved. Archie’s parents are challenging a High Court ruling on Friday morning which concluded it was not in the 12-year-old’s best interests to be moved before his life-sustaining appeal was withdrawn. His parents then appealed the High Court decision to the Court of Appeal – but on Friday night judges refused them permission to appeal. The 12-year-old has been in a coma since being found unconscious by his mother at their home in Southend, Essex, in April and is being kept alive by a combination of medical interventions, including ventilation and medication, at the Royal. London Hospital in Whitechapel, East London. His mother, Hollie Dance, believes he took part in an online challenge that made him terminally ill. On Wednesday the couple’s long legal battles to extend his life support ended when the European Court of Human Rights refused to intervene to stop the treatment being withdrawn. The family’s focus then shifted to trying to get their son moved to a hospice, but Ms Justice Theis at the High Court concluded on Friday that it was not in Archie’s best interests to be moved. Doctors said Archie was in such a serious condition that moving him to a hospice carried a “significant risk” he would die during the journey, he told the High Court. Ruling on Friday that he should remain in hospital while his life-sustaining treatment is withdrawn, Ms Justice Theis said due to the risks involved in the transfer and “the increasing fragility of his medical condition”, Archie should remain in hospital when his treatment is complete. withdrawn. “The conditions outlined by Dr F for the physical arrangements at the hospital and the arrangements that can be made will ensure that Archie’s best interests remain at the heart of the final arrangements so that he can die peacefully and privately in the arms of the family I loved said Ms. Theis. Doctors treating the student for the past four months declared Archie “brain dead” but his family kept him on life support in the hope he could recover. But the judges who heard the application concluded that Judge Theis’ rulings were correct. “It follows that the proposed appeal has no prospect of success and there is no other compelling reason for the Court of Appeal to entertain an appeal,” they said. The appeal judges also said one of the arguments put forward by Archie’s parents was legally flawed, adding: “It is also not easy to understand as it attempts to argue that Archie’s best interests have ceased to be relevant.” After the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) rejected an application to delay any changes to his treatment, Mrs Dance said she wanted her son to “spend his final moments” with his family in private. He told Times Radio that they would have no privacy in hospital, adding: “We can’t even get the chance to be in a room together as a family without nurses.” Archie Battersbee’s parents have fought a long-running legal battle to withdraw his treatment (Hollie Dance/PA) (Average PA) He said: “There’s absolutely no privacy, which is why, again, the courts keep doing this dignified death – why we’re not allowed to take our child to a hospice and spend his last moments, his last days together in private? “ Barts Health NHS Trust said Archie’s condition was too unstable for transport and that taking him by ambulance to a different environment would “likely hasten the premature deterioration which the family wish to avoid, even with full intensive care equipment and staff in journey”. A High Court ruling handed down last month requires Archie to remain at the Royal London Hospital while his treatment is withdrawn. A spokeswoman for the family said a hospice had agreed to take him in, adding: “Hospices are well and truly designed for palliative and palliative care. “Archie is obviously now in palliative care, so there’s no reason he shouldn’t be spending his final moments in a hospice.”