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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:

    1

    Case number:

    53

    Categories:

    Aftercare, Cognitive Disability, HSE, In Camera Rule, Physical Disability

    HSE and CFA discuss how to respond to needs of non-verbal girl in care soon to turn 18

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    52

    Categories:

    Abroad, Aftercare, Disability, Unaccompanied Minor

    Judge makes referral to aftercare for exceptionally vulnerable girl

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    51

    Categories:

    Reunification

    Progress towards reunification of five children with mother

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    50

    Categories:

    Foster Care Rights

    Extended rights granted to foster parents

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    49

    Categories:

    Special Care

    Interim care order extended for girl discharged from special care

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    48

    Categories:

    Disability, Foster Care

    Interim care order extended as witness summons issued to Garda investigating allegations against foster brother

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    47

    Categories:

    Access, Foster Care

    Positive reports on six children in care during review

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    46

    Categories:

    Placement Breakdown, Special Care

    Interim care order extended pending decision on special care

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    45

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    Interim care order for two months, longer order sought for assessments

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    44

    Categories:

    Alternative Placement, Behavioural Problems, Covid, Criminality, Disability

    Boy with complex needs placed in a holiday home

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.