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Reporting on child care proceedings in the District Court in May 2025.

Falling Through the Cracks: An Analysis of Child Care Proceedings from 2021 to 2024
Latest volume of court reports from 2024
A summary of findings from 10 years of reporting
  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Neglect, Physical Abuse

    Full care order for child who suffered non-accidental injuries as a baby

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Care order extended amid concerns for mother’s mental health

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Adoption, Autism, Mental Health, Newborn

    Interim care order granted for two-week-old baby after three-day hearing

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    55

    Categories:

    Section 47

    Judge reviews 30 cases where children were unallocated to social workers for a number of months

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    41

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Interim care order for two children extended where parents had not engaged

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    32

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Interim care order for teenage girl in voluntary care for three months

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, In Prison, Mental Health

    Short Care Order for a young Eastern European boy following death of grandmother and incarceration of mother

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Addiction, Alcohol, Drugs

    District Court grants a six-month care order for a toddler to allow mother to address her substance abuse

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Autism, Disability

    Full care orders for two children where DNA test finds assumed father not biological father of girl

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    49

    Categories:

    Asian, Mental Health, Religion, Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim Care Order for unaccompanied teenage boy from south Asia

This follows the discontinuation of its reporting in July 2024, as the contract with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (DCEDIY) was coming to an end. We are very pleased that we signed a new two-year Agreement with the DCEDY in March and the members of our reporting panel have agreed to resume their work.

Over a twelve-year period, the Project provided information to the public on the operation of the child care system in the courts with the aim of promoting transparency and accountability. It published 1,050 individual court reports and a number of analytical research reports, all of which are available on this website.