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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:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Asian, Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim care order for unaccompanied minor who fled from the Taliban

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Abandonment, Newborn, Unaccompanied Minor

    Care order for very young baby who came into the country without parents

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Unaccompanied Minor

    One year care order for girl who arrived alone at Irish airport

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Unaccompanied Minor

    Full care order for boy who arrived at Irish port in back of lorry

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    53

    Categories:

    Addiction, Covid, Drugs, Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away

    Hearing adjourned to allow mother rehabilitate from addiction

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    52

    Categories:

    Non-Attendance At School

    Supervision order reviewed where children not attending school

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    51

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Section 47

    Interim care orders extended in provincial towns

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    50

    Categories:

    Abandonment, Addiction, Placement Breakdown

    Interim care orders extended amid concerns about child’s safety in care

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    49

    Categories:

    Non-Attendance At School, Physical Abuse

    Supervision order granted, another reviewed

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    48

    Categories:

    Access, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse

    Three-year care order for young child granted in rural town

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.