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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:

    2024

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Addiction, Domestic Violence, Emotional Abuse

    Adjournment of interim care order hearing to allow mother engage with CFA

  • Year:

    2024

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Newborn

    Emergency Care Order for newborn baby while mother under psychiatric care, interim care order granted later

  • Year:

    2024

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Neglect, Non-Attendance At School, Section 47

    Supervision Order granted where young child had effectively missed two years school

  • Year:

    2024

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, Physical Disability

    Circuit Court dismisses parents’ appeals against District Court care orders for two teenage children until the age of 18

  • Year:

    2024

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Lack Of Service, Special Care

    Supreme Court upholds High Court judgments that CFA must apply for special care orders for troubled children who need such care

  • Year:

    2024

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Disability

    Judge extends interim care order for one child, orders a further review of the supervision order for second

  • Year:

    2024

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Case Reports 2024 Volume 1 – Introduction

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    54

    Categories:

    Transgender, Wardship

    Transgender child ward of court soon to turn 18 to remain in care in community

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    53

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Neglect, Sexual Abuse, Trafficking, Wardship

    Wardship sought for suspected child victim of trafficking, orders granted prohibiting contact from family members

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    52

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Physical Disability, Wardship

    Child with disabilities leaving foster care becomes ward of court

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.