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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:

    8

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Consent to Care Order by mother with psychological problems

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, In Prison

    Legal Aid Board asked why no legal aid for prisoner father

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Parents In Care

    Care Order until 18 refused

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse

    Care order for abused 15-year-old girl

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Homelessness, Neglect

    Children of homeless drug user taken into care

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Reunification

    ECO for 8-year-old born and reared in direct provision centre

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Access, Religion

    Full Care Order for 14-year-old boy

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Africa, Unaccompanied Minor

    Emergency Care Order refused for African child

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    34

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs

    Care Orders for young children of drug user

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    32

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems

    Full Care Order for only five months while full care plan produced

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.