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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:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    50

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Behavioural Problems, Drugs, Mental Health, Sexual Abuse

    Four interim care orders in provincial town amid concerns about sexualised behaviour, drug and alcohol abuse and mental health

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    49

    Categories:

    Newborn, Parents In Care

    Order extended for baby of mother who had been in care

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    48

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Reunification

    Child and mother reunited after mother’s alcohol treatment

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    47

    Categories:

    Access, In Prison, Reunification, Sexual Abuse

    Interim care orders extended in four cases in provincial town

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    46

    Categories:

    Access, Cognitive Disability

    Care order hearing adjourned for mediation, mother with intellectual difficulties has GAL

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    45

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Mother seeks to discharge care order

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    44

    Categories:

    Foster Care, Lack Of Placement

    Interim care orders extended where shortage of foster parents highlighted

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    43

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Non-Attendance At School, Traveller

    Full care orders for four children with poor school attendance

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    42

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Witnessed Domestic Abuse

    Extension of supervision orders for children affected by domestic violence

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    41

    Categories:

    HSE, Mental Health Act, Section 47

    District Court judge directs HSE to prepare a discharge plan for a young girl detained 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.