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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:

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Case Reports 2022 Volume 2 – Introduction

  • Year:

    2023

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Case Reports 2022 Volume 1 – Introduction

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    51

    Categories:

    Special Care

    Overview of Special Care List: Judge stresses need for legislative reform in a number of areas

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    62

    Categories:

    Abroad, Mental Health, Wardship

    Wardship reviewed for young man in secure hospital outside jurisdiction

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    61

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Autism, Cognitive Disability, HSE, Wardship

    Young Ward of Court transferred from care to adult HSE placement

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    60

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Disability, Wardship

    Non-verbal young person admitted into wardship

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    59

    Categories:

    Autism, Cognitive Disability, Mental Health Act, Residential Placement

    Young man in residential care taken into wardship as turns 18

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    58

    Categories:

    Aftercare, Cognitive Disability, HSE, Lack Of Co-Operation Between State Agencies, Wardship

    Wardship sought for care-leaver with multiple difficulties where CFA and HSE discussing who responsible for her care

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    57

    Categories:

    Aftercare, Cognitive Disability, Wardship

    Date set for wardship hearing for young care leaver with intellectual disability

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    56

    Categories:

    Autism, Foster Care, Wardship

    Former foster care is carer and Committee for young woman in wardship

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.