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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:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    37

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Drugs, Physical Disability

    Court refuses to discharge care order

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    36

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Care order reviews among cases heard in provincial city

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    35

    Categories:

    Newborn

    Interim care order for infant granted shortly after birth extended

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    34

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Supervision order application adjourned for legal representation

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    33

    Categories:

    Addiction, Cognitive Disability, Disability, Drugs

    Interim care orders extended for three young children

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    32

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Foster Care

    Judge seeks appointment of GAL

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    31

    Categories:

    Witnessed Violence

    Judge refuses to grant interim care order

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Interim Care Order extended on consent for therapy sessions

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Non-Attendance At School

    Interim care order where teenager missing school

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    28

    Categories:

    Addiction, Foster Care, Parents Dead

    Interim care order extended after ten years in voluntary 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.