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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:

    23

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Criminality, Domestic Violence, Drugs, Ethnic Minority, In Camera Rule, Section 47, Traveller

    Interim care orders further extended for three Traveller children

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Newborn

    Interim care order extended for infant where doubt about mother’s capacity to consent

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Mental Health, Newborn

    Interim care order for newborn infant whose mother suffering from mental illness

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Newborn, Reunification

    Interim care order granted for a newborn, judge tells young mother she can be reunited with child

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Newborn

    Hearing begins of interim care order application for three children of teenage parents

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Newborn

    Interim care order for newborn where mother’s mental health deteriorates

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    17

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence

    Interim care order for teenage mother extended amid concerns about violent boyfriend

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    16

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems

    Interim care order extended while inappropriate behaviour of father examined

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Addiction, Homelessness, Sexual Abuse

    Care order review for young child amid sex abuse concerns

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Addiction, Mental Health

    Care order to age 18 granted where mother suffering addiction and mental health difficulties

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.