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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:

    21

    Categories:

    Section 47

    Interim care order extended amid questions on paternity

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, Physical Abuse

    Interim care order extended as physical abuse revealed

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Access, Newborn

    Separate parenting assessments sought as interim care order extended for infant

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Abroad, Newborn

    Social workers seek international assistance to contact parents of infant in care and extended order

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Sexual Abuse

    Interim care order extended while child assessed for sex abuse

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Residential Placement

    Extension of an interim care order for teenage girl in residential care

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    Newborn, Parents In Care

    Interim care order for baby extended as parental assessment prepared for parents

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Criminality, Ethnic Minority

    Interim care order extended for teenage boy who was joyriding, interim care order also for sister

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Change Of Placement, Foster Care, Section 47

    Interim care orders for two girls extended, application to move placement refused

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Neglect

    Interim Care Order granted for two young children who were already the subject of a Supervision Order

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.