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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:

    40

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    Full care order for child in care on short and interim orders for seven years

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    39

    Categories:

    Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic Violence

    Barring order against mother as interim care order extended

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    38

    Categories:

    Adoption, Aftercare

    GAL “firmly of the view” that a post-adoption aftercare allowance needed

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    37

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    Short term care order extended for two months

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    36

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    Full care order after three-day hearing

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    35

    Categories:

    Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away, Voice Of The Child

    Care order for teenager discharged on application of CFA

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    34

    Categories:

    Physical Abuse

    Interim care order for children whose brother had non-accidental injury

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    33

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems

    Full care order granted on consent for troubled teenager

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    32

    Categories:

    Asian, Change Of Placement, Cognitive Disability, Physical Disability, Placement Breakdown

    Interim care order for child with educational needs in seven placements in five months

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    31

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority

    Supervision order for children of immigrants

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.