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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:

    43

    Categories:

    Foster Care, Physical Abuse, Placement Breakdown, Sexual Abuse

    Review of child in care who had seven foster placements in two and a half years

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    42

    Categories:

    Lack Of Placement

    Young boy in residential unit for two years awaiting foster placement

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    41

    Categories:

    Africa, Unaccompanied Minor

    Care order granted for unaccompanied minor, parents’ whereabouts unknown

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    40

    Categories:

    Africa, Unaccompanied Minor

    Care order for unaccompanied minor who had been granted refugee status

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    39

    Categories:

    Africa, Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim care order for unaccompanied minor whose parents already in Ireland

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    38

    Categories:

    Abroad, Africa, Parents Dead, Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim care order extended for four African children alone in Ireland

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    37

    Categories:

    Unaccompanied Minor

    Full care order for unaccompanied minor fleeing war

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    36

    Categories:

    Forced Marriage, Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim care order for unaccompanied minor avoiding marriage

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    35

    Categories:

    Forced Marriage, Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim care order extended for unaccompanied minor escaping forced marriage

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    34

    Categories:

    Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim care order for unaccompanied boy who was separated from brother on journey

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.