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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:

    27

    Categories:

    Abroad, Ethnic Minority, Reunification

    Court orders independent report on reunification plan for young girl in an undeveloped country

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Abroad, Reunification, Section 47

    Father granted permission to reside in the State as the parent of three Irish citizen children in care, CFA considers reunification

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Newborn, UK / United Kingdom

    Three-week-old baby returned to UK social services

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Parents Dead

    Consent to two-year care order following death of mother

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    CAMHS, Physical Abuse

    Interim care order granted for boys who alleged physical abuse, application later withdrawn

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Homelessness

    Family welfare conference need not take place before an interim care order application, proportionality also an issue

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Disability, No Disability Support, Reunification

    Supervision order discharged despite GAL’s concerns about ongoing support for father caring for vulnerable child

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Interim care order extended where mother suffering from mental illness

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Newborn, Physical Disability

    GAL appointed for 16-year-old mother with a disability whose baby in interim care

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Homelessness

    Interim care order granted for toddler whose father lacked stable accommodation, mother addicted to alcohol

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.