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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:

    7

    Categories:

    Special Care, Voice Of The Child

    Child joined as a party to High Court proceedings

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Drugs, Exploitation, Sexual Abuse, Special Care

    Secure care order renewed for teenage girl at risk of sexual exploitation

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Addiction, Behavioural Problems, CAMHS, Special Care

    Boy with severe ADHD and substance abuse taken into secure care

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Section 47

    High Court rules District Court has power to make orders on welfare of children in care

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Criminality, Special Care

    Judge: “Where does the care system begin or end and where does the criminal justice system begin or end, perhaps they don’t.”

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    UK / United Kingdom, Wardship

    Review of situation of teenager detained in UK under wardship

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    UK / United Kingdom, Wardship

    Wardship to allow teenager travel to a specialised therapeutic centre in UK

  • Year:

    2019

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Introduction 2019 Vol. 2

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Sexual Abuse, Traveller

    Judgment delivered, care order granted for “traumatised child”

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    38

    Categories:

    Neglect

    Interim Care Order among 22 child care cases heard

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.