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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:

    31

    Categories:

    Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic Violence, Drugs, In Camera Rule, Neglect

    Care orders for two years consented to by parents who commended for engagement

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    Care order for boy living with mother in care with relatives

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Criminality, Drugs, Mental Health

    Interim care order for boy soon to be 18 extended amid concerns about drug use and suicide threats

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    28

    Categories:

    Aftercare

    Interim care order extended for girl in third level education pending full care order and aftercare plan

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    27

    Categories:

    Physical Disability

    Interim care order extended for child with significant health needs

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, CAMHS, Ethnic Minority, Mental Health

    Interim care order extended for traumatised non-national teenage girl with complex needs

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Mental Health

    Interim Care Order extended for boy where parental capacity assessment awaited

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Newborn, Reunification

    Interim care order for infant extended where reunification under consideration

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Addiction, Criminality, Drugs

    Interim care order extended for four children, concerns about drug use of fifth child

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Placement Breakdown

    Interim care order extended for four children currently in care following breakdown of voluntary care arrangement

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.