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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:

    2

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Adoption, Mental Health

    Mother with mental health difficulties considers adoption

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Physical Disability

    Judge orders speech and language therapy “forthwith”

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Exploitation, Trafficking

    Trafficked girl taken into care

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    HSE must inform Minister of its failure to comply with regulations

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic Violence

    Young girl to remain in care because of alcohol addiction and violence

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Abandonment, Abroad, Africa

    Care order for abandoned African girl

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    In Camera Rule

    Court can lift in camera rule

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Access, Addiction, Drugs

    Overnight access denied to mother with history of drug abuse

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Africa

    Interim care order extended for four African children

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, Foster Care, Residential Placement

    Child leaves residential centre for foster 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.