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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:

    7

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Newborn, Witnessed Domestic Abuse

    12-day interim care order granted amid serious domestic violence concerns, then replaced by supervision order

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence

    Interim care order for four young children amid fears of mother’s partner

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Interim care orders extended amid concerns for mother’s mental health

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Emergency care order following mother’s mental health relapse

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Mental Health Act

    Application to detain child under Mental Health Act withdrawn

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Mental Health, No Mental Health Service, Section 47

    In-patient psychiatric bed sought for boy with “significant and immediate” mental health issues; remains at home with supports

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Behavioural Problems, Drugs, Emotional Abuse, Lack Of Placement, Physical Abuse, Residential Placement

    No special residential placement available for very young child considered a danger to mother and siblings

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Introduction 2021 Vol 2

  • Year:

    2021

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Introduction 2021 Vol 1

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    48

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Costs of private solicitor denied

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.