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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:

    30

    Categories:

    Abroad, Foster Care

    Father’s application to discharge interim care order granted

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Foster Care, Physical Abuse

    Full care orders granted on consent, GAL refused hearing of further evidence

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    28

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Domestic Violence, Reunification

    Reunification of mother and children postponed for 15 months

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    27

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Domestic Violence, Neglect, Sexual Abuse

    Judge grants care orders, deplores four years’ delay in bringing case and calls for full case management in all child care cases

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Abandonment, Newborn

    Full care order for baby whose mother left state

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority

    Court hears of social workers’ efforts to bridge cultural gaps

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Physical Abuse

    District court grants interim care order for five children following unexplained severe injuries

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse

    Disclosures of physical abuse and sexualised behaviour by children following emergency admission to foster care with suspicious burns

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Trafficking, Unaccompanied Minor

    Interim care order for suspected victim of trafficking

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Aftercare, Ethnic Minority

    Uncertainty for immigrant child about to age out of care

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.