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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

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    Funding, Residential Placement

    Judge directs that letter be sent to Comptroller and Auditor General concerning contract with providers of residential care for children

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    Access, Covid, Reunification

    Novel issues in child care proceedings raised by Covid crisis

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    Covid, Ethnic Minority, Trafficking, Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim care order granted in first ever virtual hearing

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    Additional Issues

    Care Order granted on consent for six weeks

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    Additional Issues, Foster Care

    Care Order granted for baby where mother unable to give instructions

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    Introduction

    Introduction

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    Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse

    Interim Care Orders granted after six weeks of hearings

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    Domestic Violence, Witnessed Domestic Abuse

    Care Order for four children extended for parenting assessment

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    Introduction

    Introduction to Case Histories

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    Abandonment, Newborn

    Baby found in wheelie bin

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.