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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:

    37

    Categories:

    In Prison, Parents Dead

    Interim care order extended where mother deceased, father in prison

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    36

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, Drugs, In Prison, Mental Health

    Consent to care order where mother ill, father in custody

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    35

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Ethnic Minority, Religion

    Interim care orders for five children where father under investigation

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    34

    Categories:

    Criminality, Drugs, In Prison

    Care orders extended where parent had history of drug use and criminality

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    33

    Categories:

    Abroad, Exploitation, Residential Placement, Sexual Abuse

    Interim care order extended for child in residential unit amid concerns she may be pregnant

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    32

    Categories:

    Change Of Placement, Criminality, Drugs, Placement Breakdown, Special Care

    GAL seeks special care for child who had 35 foster placements

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    31

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Ethnic Minority, Mental Health

    Interim care order extended where concerns about mother’s mental health and alcohol abuse

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Access, Alcohol, Physical Abuse

    Access suspended following concerning disclosures from children

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Disability, Ethnic Minority, Forced Marriage

    Interim care order extended amid fears mother facing forced marriage

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    28

    Categories:

    Neglect, Sexual Abuse

    Evidence continues in long-running case in rural town

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.