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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:

    24

    Categories:

    Change Of Placement, Domestic Violence, Neglect

    Full care order granted for young boy who had moved placement following allegations against child of foster parents

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Addiction, Autism, Cognitive Disability, Parents Dead

    Care orders for teenage boys already in voluntary care whose parents died

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Access, Domestic Violence, Parents Dead

    Full care order for boy whose parents separated, father he lived with later died

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Neglect

    Care order for three children amid allegations of neglect where parents not engaging in proceedings

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Homelessness, Mental Health

    Full care order for teen girl with a history of trauma who feared becoming homeless at 18 years

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Abroad, Autism, Disability

    Child’s father travels from USA to attend proceedings for child he did not know was in care

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Reunification

    One year Care order for a preschool age child extended on consent for six months

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    17

    Categories:

    Eating Disorder, Lack Of Placement, Mental Health Act, No Allocated Social Worker, Section 47

    Child suffering from anorexia nervosa living at home under care order; judge critical of CFA’s lack of social workers and foster parents

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    16

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Interim care order extended among mental health concerns for mother

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Criminality

    Interim care order for a teenage boy extended

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.