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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:

    1

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    In Camera Rule, Mental Health

    In camera rule lifted so that reports can be sent to child’s psychiatrist

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Funding, Physical Disability

    Judge orders production of assessment and therapy reports

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Drugs, Mental Health

    Interim care order extended where drug abuse and mental health concerns

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    10

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Parents Dead

    Interim care order extended where mother has mental health issues, father deceased

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Drugs, Mental Health

    Interim care order granted amid mental health concerns for mother

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    CAMHS, Mental Health, Mental Health Act

    District Court makes order to detain self-harming child under Section 25 of Mental Health Act

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    UK / United Kingdom

    Care order review of child in care in UK heard remotely in Dublin District Court

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Covid

    Interim care order when mother’s alcohol abuse relapses due to Covid 19

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Access, Covid

    Covid-19 causes problems for therapy and access as interim care orders extended

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Access, Covid, Eating Disorder, Mental Health Act

    Pandemic restrictions on access a concern after girl admitted to psychiatric unit under Mental Health Act

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.