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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:

    2013

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Parents Dead

    Interim Care Order granted where child feared mother’s new partner

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Behavioural Problems, Criminality, Mental Health

    Care Orders for five children granted

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Addiction, Behavioural Problems, Domestic Violence, Drugs, Neglect, Non-Attendance At School

    Pattern of aggressive behaviour and neglect leads to Interim Care Orders

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    CAMHS, Mental Health, Religion

    GAL questions “exorcism” with disturbed girl in care

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Access, Newborn

    Judge refuses to reduce mother’s access to baby

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    HSE, Romani

    Emergency Care Order for Roma child withdrawn after DNA test

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Africa, Ethnic Minority, HSE, Physical Abuse

    Interim Care Order for children beaten by parents

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, HSE, Physical Abuse

    One year Care Order following serious non-accidental injury

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Aftercare, Cognitive Disability, Unaccompanied Minor

    After-care plan for unaccompanied minor not adequate

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Neglect, Parents In Care, Sexual Abuse

    Care Order for daughter of girl formerly in care

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.