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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:

    3

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Physical Abuse

    Care order granted for children who alleged physical abuse

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability

    Interim care order extended for two young children

  • Year:

    2022

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Alternative Placement

    Interim care orders for four children, young teenager placed in hotel

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    31

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Snapshot of District Court Cases Listed between October and December 2021 in the Dublin Metropolitan District

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away, Physical Abuse

    Interim care order extended for child who ran away from home and refused to return

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Criminality, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse

    Interim care orders extended for five abused and neglected children, where parents convicted of assault on one

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    28

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, Reunification

    Interim care order extended as reunification planned

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    27

    Categories:

    Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse

    Interim care order where physical and sexual abuse alleged

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Section 47

    Interim care orders made for six children on consent, supervision order for seventh, amid concerns for children’s safety

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Adoption

    Judge asked to maintain oversight of a young person being adopted

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.