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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:

    34

    Categories:

    Placement Breakdown

    Case re-entered due to breakdown of foster care placement

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    33

    Categories:

    Special Care

    Teenage boy with protracted history admitted to special care

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    32

    Categories:

    Criminality, Domestic Violence, Sexual Abuse

    CFA seeks interim barring order to protect children already under care order

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    31

    Categories:

    Africa, Forced Marriage, Unaccompanied Minor

    Care order for girl who left African country to avoid marriage with older man

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Asian, Ethnic Minority, Religion, Unaccompanied Minor

    Care order for boy who arrived alone in Ireland in container

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Asian, Ethnic Minority, Religion, Unaccompanied Minor

    Care order for unaccompanied minor

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    28

    Categories:

    Asian, Ethnic Minority, Parents Dead, Unaccompanied Minor, Witnessed Violence

    Interim care order for resettled refugee boy who saw mother killed

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    27

    Categories:

    Access, Addiction

    Full care order for three children, two in care since infancy

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    In Camera Rule, Parents In Care

    Care order granted for children whose mother had been in care

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Addiction, Domestic Violence, Homelessness

    Care orders for two children in voluntary care for 10 years

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.