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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:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Physical Disability

    Parents collapse during hearing

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Criminality, Drugs, Newborn

    Full Care Order granted for infant after 18 months of hearings

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence

    Care Order for four children extended for parenting assessment

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Reunification

    Robust plan of supports enables reunification

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, Criminality, Drugs, Special Care

    No Secure Care bed for troubled boy

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Access, Behavioural Problems, Physical Disability

    Funding needed to help with access for severely disabled child

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse

    Children return to care for second time

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Africa, Emotional Abuse, Ethnic Minority, Physical Abuse

    Interim Care Order extended for African children

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Abroad, In Prison

    Care Order for child whose father awaiting extradition

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Newborn

    Care Order refused for young baby, Supervision Order granted instead

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.