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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:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

10

Categories:

Mental Health, Newborn

Interim care order extended for infant taken into care at birth, supervision order refused
Year:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

9

Categories:

Homelessness, Mental Health, Newborn

Interim care order extended for infant whose mother homeless and had mental health difficulties
Year:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

8

Categories:

Addiction, Advocate, Domestic Violence, Emotional Abuse

Interim care orders extended for five children where parents’ relationship “toxic”
Year:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

7

Categories:

No Allocated Social Worker

Dublin District Court refuses to fully extend interim care order for a young boy without allocated social worker
Year:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

6

Categories:

Unaccompanied Minor

Interim care order for two children granted under Brussels IIb, children arrived in Ireland with adults who were detained
Year:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

5

Categories:

Trafficking

Short interim care order granted for toddler who entered the State in suspicious circumstances
Year:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

4

Categories:

Addiction, Disability, Section 47

Interim care order for young child granted, mother’s consent to assessment of need dispensed with
Year:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

3

Categories:

Mental Health

Judge grants interim care order where mother not informed of application; mother under psychiatric treatment, father informed
Year:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

2

Categories:

CAMHS, Mental Health, Special Care, Transgender

Case adjourned while child referred to CAMHS, special care approved
Year:

2023

Volume:

2

Case number:

1

Categories:

Non-Attendance At School

Mother withdraws application to appeal supervision order granted following school referral

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.

`New Homepage 2025`

Reporting on child care proceedings in the District Court in May 2025.

`Interim care order extended for infant taken into care at birth, supervision order refused`

`Interim care order extended for infant whose mother homeless and had mental health difficulties`

`Interim care orders extended for five children where parents’ relationship “toxic”`

`Interim care order for two children granted under Brussels IIb, children arrived in Ireland with adults who were detained`

`Short interim care order granted for toddler who entered the State in suspicious circumstances`

`Interim care order for young child granted, mother’s consent to assessment of need dispensed with`

`Judge grants interim care order where mother not informed of application; mother under psychiatric treatment, father informed`

`Case adjourned while child referred to CAMHS, special care approved`

`Mother withdraws application to appeal supervision order granted following school referral`

Reporting on child care proceedings in the District Court in May 2025.

Interim care order extended for infant taken into care at birth, supervision order refused

Interim care order extended for infant whose mother homeless and had mental health difficulties

Interim care orders extended for five children where parents’ relationship “toxic”

Dublin District Court refuses to fully extend interim care order for a young boy without allocated social worker

Interim care order for two children granted under Brussels IIb, children arrived in Ireland with adults who were detained

Short interim care order granted for toddler who entered the State in suspicious circumstances

Interim care order for young child granted, mother’s consent to assessment of need dispensed with

Judge grants interim care order where mother not informed of application; mother under psychiatric treatment, father informed

Case adjourned while child referred to CAMHS, special care approved

Mother withdraws application to appeal supervision order granted following school referral

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`Interim care order extended for infant taken into care at birth, supervision order refused`

`Interim care order extended for infant whose mother homeless and had mental health difficulties`

`Interim care orders extended for five children where parents’ relationship “toxic”`

`Dublin District Court refuses to fully extend interim care order for a young boy without allocated social worker`

`Interim care order for two children granted under Brussels IIb, children arrived in Ireland with adults who were detained`

`Short interim care order granted for toddler who entered the State in suspicious circumstances`

`Interim care order for young child granted, mother’s consent to assessment of need dispensed with`

`Judge grants interim care order where mother not informed of application; mother under psychiatric treatment, father informed`

`Case adjourned while child referred to CAMHS, special care approved`

`Mother withdraws application to appeal supervision order granted following school referral`