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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:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    64

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Section 47

    District Court judge directs CFA to provide funding for the private treatment of a teenage boy with ADHD

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    45

    Categories:

    Abroad, Sexual Abuse, Trafficking

    Interim Care order granted for non-national child suspected of being trafficked for sex trade

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Non-Attendance At School

    Care orders for adolescents granted where drug use, emotional abuse and neglect was alleged

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    65

    Categories:

    Eating Disorder, Mental Health Act

    Detention under Mental Health Act extended for girl with anorexia nervosa

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    34

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Foster Care, In Prison, Physical Abuse

    Interim care order extended for three children amid serious safety and welfare concerns in placement

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    35

    Categories:

    Exploitation, Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away, Sexual Abuse, Special Emergency Arrangement

    Interim care order extended for teenager who was sexually assaulted when she repeatedly absconded from “special emergency arrangement”

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Autism, Disability, Domestic Violence, Lack Of Service

    Interim care orders for three out of five autistic children while private law custody proceedings ongoing

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Autism, Behavioural Problems, Disability, Neglect, Non-Attendance At School

    Care order for non-verbal autistic child following three-day hearing

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Addiction, In Prison

    Full care order on consent for infant whose mother incarcerated

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Criminality, Mental Health, Newborn, Trafficking

    Interim Care Order granted for newborn as mother, a possible victim of human trafficking, remains in psychiatric 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.