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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:

    1

    Case number:

    53

    Categories:

    Access, Reunification

    Further review listed for complex case involving seven children in care; three eldest children to meet judge

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    45

    Categories:

    Autism, Disability, Foster Care, Placement Breakdown

    Boy in emergency placement following breakdown of foster placement with relative

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    67

    Categories:

    Addiction, Exploitation, Mental Health, Special Care, Wardship

    Young woman admitted to wardship in 2020 released from wardship in early 2023

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    66

    Categories:

    Autism, Eating Disorder, Mental Health, Wardship

    Orders extended for young man with autism and eating disorder while adult wardship application being prepared

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    65

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, CAMHS, Cognitive Disability, Disability, Lack Of Educational Support, Physical Disability, Wardship

    Lack of education raised during wardship application for boy in voluntary care with complex needs

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    64

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Wardship

    Package of “elaborate” supports agreed for young Ward of Court amid concerns he may not take prescribed medication; order made under Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    63

    Categories:

    Eating Disorder, Mental Health, Mental Health Act

    Girl suffering from anorexia nervosa admitted to hospital under Mental Health Act

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    62

    Categories:

    CAMHS, Mental Health, Mental Health Act

    Section 25 of Mental Health Act order admitting boy with OCD to CAMHS in-patient unit

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    61

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence

    Judge directs service of a protection order on a father where wife too afraid to make the application

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    17

    Categories:

    Access, Addiction

    Interim care order extended for two girls in provincial town

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.