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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:

    3

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Drugs, Homelessness

    Care Order for homeless and at-risk teenager

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    17

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, Mental Health

    Care orders for three psychologically disturbed children

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    16

    Categories:

    Criminality, Ethnic Minority, In Prison

    Mother in direct provision opposes discharge of Emergency Care Order

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Domestic Violence, Foster Care

    Case adjourned to allow grandparents help with children

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Access

    Short-term care ordered granted in provincial city

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    Access, Alcohol

    Mother given chance to address problems

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Alternative Placement, UK / United Kingdom

    Supreme Court upholds sending case to UK

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    10

    Categories:

    In Camera Rule

    Court lifts in camera rule

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Abroad, Additional Issues

    ICO not renewed because girl not a minor

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Section 47

    Parental consent to sport lessons dispensed with

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.