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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:

    27

    Categories:

    Addiction, Neglect

    Emergency care orders when young child left at home alone

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Neglect, Sexual Abuse

    Full care orders for three children on grounds of sex abuse, neglect

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Physical Disability, Reunification

    Judge stresses importance of disability supports for mother

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Advocate

    Advocate required for vulnerable mother

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Physical Disability

    Full care order for young child with special needs, mother has a mild intellectual disability

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Newborn

    Six-month care order granted for very young baby in care since birth, mother had intellectual difficulties

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Neglect

    Care orders extended for three young children – judge impressed by “huge progress” made by mother

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Abandonment, Newborn

    Care order for baby born on the street

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Mental Health Act

    Emergency care order where mother detained under Mental Health Act

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Newborn

    Full care order granted for baby whose mother unable to consent due to mental health difficulties

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.