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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:

    1

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Access, Addiction, Alcohol, Drugs, Mental Health

    Mother distressed over lack of access

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Physical Abuse

    Interim Care Order refused

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Neglect

    Emergency Care Order for three very young children

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Drugs, In Prison, Neglect, Non-Attendance At School

    Interim care order granted where mother abusing drugs

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Neglect

    Supervision order granted for young children

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Africa, Ethnic Minority, Mental Health

    Interim care order renewed for African boy

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Reunification

    Family reunited as interim care orders discharged

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence

    Supervision Order continued for three months

  • Year:

    2013

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Voice Of The Child

    16-year old asks to go into care

  • Year:

    Volume:

    Case number:

    Categories:

    Aftercare, Placement Breakdown

    Judge directs child travel by taxi to school to end of academic year following placement breakdown

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.