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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:

    3

    Categories:

    Covid

    District Court extends interim care order for a young girl of primary school age, full hearing delayed by Covid-19

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Addiction, Covid, Emotional Abuse

    Interim care orders granted and extended, after-care examined, in uncontested cases heard under Covid 19 restrictions

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Covid, In Camera Rule, Newborn

    25 matters listed before District Court on one day during Covid-19 Pandemic

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Introduction 2020 Volume 2

  • Year:

    2020

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Introduction 2020 Vol.1

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    55

    Categories:

    Adoption

    Case adjourned for mother to seek legal advice where child being adopted

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    54

    Categories:

    Access, Voice Of The Child

    Review of eight-year-old care orders means access to be at child’s discretion

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    53

    Categories:

    Neglect

    Full care order granted for teenage boy due to mother’s neglect

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    52

    Categories:

    Voice Of The Child

    District Court appoints guardian ad litem in voluntary care arrangement

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    51

    Categories:

    Abroad, Newborn

    Full care order for baby in voluntary care since birth

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.