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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:

    7

    Categories:

    Parents Dead, Residential Placement, Special Care

    Full care order for child leaving secure care

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Residential Placement, Wardship

    Wardship application for young woman who “fell between child care and mental health regimes”

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Special Care, Wardship

    In “disturbing” case, High Court refuses wardship for young person leaving secure care

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Access, Covid

    Parents concerned at reduction of access due to Covid-19

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Neglect

    Interim care orders for two children following hospitalisation of one for headlice infestation

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Neglect

    Interim care order for child admitted to intensive care with severe infection

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Access, Covid

    District Court refuses to order face-to-face access following its suspension during Level 5 Covid restrictions

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    46

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    District Court judge seeks social worker affidavit even when order consented to

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    45

    Categories:

    Mental Health Act, Wardship

    GAL concern that no application made in High Court Wardship list for vulnerable girl in care since 11

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    44

    Categories:

    Witnessed Domestic Abuse

    District Court extends care order until the age of 18 for child who witnessed domestic violence

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.