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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:

    1

    Case number:

    47

    Categories:

    Abroad, Criminality, Homelessness, Mental Health

    Interim care order extended for boy returned to Ireland

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    46

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Judge refuses full care order while parents seek representation

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    45

    Categories:

    Placement Breakdown

    Twins separated after breakdown of placements

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    44

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    Interim care orders extended to allow progress with parents and children

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    43

    Categories:

    Criminality, Sexual Abuse

    Six-month supervision order while parents assessed, father had child sex conviction

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    42

    Categories:

    Newborn, Section 47

    Extension of ICO on an infant while medical records sought

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    41

    Categories:

    Sexual Abuse

    Mother consents to interim care and supervision orders amid concerns of toddlers’ vulnerability to sexual abuse

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    40

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse

    Interim care order granted for teenage girl

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    39

    Categories:

    Funding, Placement Breakdown

    Breakdown of placement where outsourced care service had money issues

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    38

    Categories:

    Abroad, Additional Issues

    Review of care order where the mother’s new partner, who had never met her children, was contacting the CFA

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.