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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:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse

    Care order until 18 uncontested as child enters care of grandmother

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    60

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Supervision order for teenager where private family law proceedings ongoing

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    16

    Categories:

    Addiction, Domestic Violence, Neglect

    Care orders for six children following three-day hearing

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    76

    Categories:

    Mental Health Act

    Costs awarded to parents and GAL following Supreme Court jurisprudence in exceptional child care case, taken under Mental Health Act

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    58

    Categories:

    Placement Breakdown

    Re-entry where child on eighth placement risking another placement breakdown among a number of cases concerning breakdowns

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    66

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Mental Health Act

    Child in care with suicidal ideation detained in special mental health facility under Mental Health Act

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    47

    Categories:

    Abroad, Parents Dead, Unaccompanied Minor

    Initial interim care order granted for unaccompanied minor

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse

    Interim care orders for two teenagers amid allegations of physical and emotional abuse

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    33

    Categories:

    Access, Criminality, Domestic Violence, Neglect

    Interim care order for young girl following concerns of neglect and alleged drug activity at her home, supervision order previously in place

  • Year:

    2025

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    68

    Categories:

    Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic Violence, Homelessness

    Emergency Care Orders for three young children one of whom had been brought to a garda station by a member of the public.

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.