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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:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    47

    Categories:

    Aftercare

    District Court approves aftercare plan

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    46

    Categories:

    Physical Abuse

    Full care order for 12 months following unexplained non-accidental injury

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    45

    Categories:

    Change Of Placement, Disability, Residential Placement

    Care review finds two siblings in different placements have complex individual needs

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    44

    Categories:

    Lack Of Educational Support

    Court grants 12-month care order for child, orders home tuition as soon as possible

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    43

    Categories:

    Access, Sexual Abuse

    Consensus reached on a venue for mother’s access visits with three children

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    42

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    One-year care orders for two young children, mother not to attend at their school

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    41

    Categories:

    Access, Foster Care, Reunification

    Full care order granted for a pre-school age child in foster care since a baby

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    40

    Categories:

    Addiction, Disability

    Care order discharged to facilitate family reunification

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    39

    Categories:

    No Allocated Social Worker, Placement Breakdown

    Eight foster placements and no social worker allocated

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    38

    Categories:

    Addiction, Domestic Violence, Foster Care, Mental Health

    Full care order made for child to stay with older siblings in stepfather’s care

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.