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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:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    55

    Categories:

    Special Care, Wardship

    Wardship orders renewed for young woman in special care for three years

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    54

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Special Care, Wardship

    Teenage Ward discharged from hospital into special care following lengthy dispute about mental health needs

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    53

    Categories:

    CAMHS, Eating Disorder, Wardship

    Wardship orders continued for teenage boy with eating disorder

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    52

    Categories:

    Neglect, Sexual Abuse, Trafficking, Wardship

    Wardship sought for suspected child victim of trafficking

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    50

    Categories:

    Aftercare, Residential Placement

    Approval of aftercare plan for a young girl in supported care unit

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    49

    Categories:

    Reunification

    Further steps towards reunification of family of five with mother; social worker revises report

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    48

    Categories:

    Addiction, Domestic Violence, Reunification

    Child care review with ultimate aim of family reunification

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    47

    Categories:

    Funding

    Review of care order where therapeutic interventions under way

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    46

    Categories:

    In Camera Rule

    In camera rule lifted; application for early hearing date refused

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    45

    Categories:

    Access

    Judge directs improved structured access between siblings in care and with their parents

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.