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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:

    17

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Neglect, Parents In Care, Traveller

    Care orders for Traveller children of parents who had been in care

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    16

    Categories:

    In Prison, Traveller

    Interim care orders for Traveller children extended

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Romani

    Interim care order extended amid concerns about attempts to remove Roma children from placement

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Unaccompanied Minor

    Care order for former unaccompanied minor

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    Abandonment, Ethnic Minority

    Six-month extension of interim care order for migrant teenager abandoned by uncle

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Covid, Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim care order for unaccompanied minor extended in virtual hearing

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Habitual Residence, Newborn, UK / United Kingdom

    Case of baby transferred back to Northern Ireland

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    10

    Categories:

    Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic Violence, UK / United Kingdom

    Full care order for young child of UK nationals

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    UK / United Kingdom

    Interim care order extended for child removed from care in Northern Ireland

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Lack Of Placement, Residential Placement, Section 47

    Mother asks court to ensure child gets appropriate accommodation on release from prison

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.