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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:

    13

    Categories:

    Adoption, Mental Health, Section 47, UK / United Kingdom

    Interim care order granted where mother has mental health issues

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Mental Health

    Interim care order extended where mother suffering from mental health issues

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Africa, Mental Health

    Interim care order extended while mother’s mental health assessed

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    10

    Categories:

    Access

    Interim care order extended, access to mother refused

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Interim care order extended where mother suffers from mental illness

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Addiction, Criminality, Ethnic Minority

    Supervision order adjourned as father fails to secure legal representation, interim care order extended for sibling

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems

    Interim care order extended for brothers where judge puzzled by parents’ approach

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Ethnic Minority, Physical Abuse, Witnessed Domestic Abuse

    Two-year care orders for two children amid concerns about abuse and domestic violence

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    CAMHS

    Interim care order granted following incident, replacing supervision order

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Addiction

    Care order for boy following five attempts at reunification

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.