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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:

    1

    Case number:

    37

    Categories:

    Religion, Section 47

    Orders for baptism made for two pre-school children

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    36

    Categories:

    Foster Care, Guardianship

    Relative foster carers oppose discharge of care order for twins where alternative of guardianship suggested

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    35

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Residential Placement

    Interim care orders extended because of drug use

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    34

    Categories:

    Access, CAMHS, Mental Health, Voice Of The Child

    Interim care order extended for child who does not want contact with mother

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    33

    Categories:

    Addiction, Homelessness

    Full care order for toddler whose parents homeless and suffered addiction

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    32

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Neglect

    Interim care orders for three young boys, mother fails to attend hearing

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    31

    Categories:

    Addiction

    Care orders for two children due to mother’s addiction and lack of engagement with services

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Sexual Abuse

    Interim care order granted; drugs misuse and sexual abuse alleged

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse

    Interim care order granted amid allegations of physical and emotional abuse

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    28

    Categories:

    Access, Placement Breakdown

    Case review hears of placement breakdowns

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.