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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:

    27

    Categories:

    Access, Mental Health

    Judge in rural town urges more access for vulnerable mother

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Abroad, Trafficking

    Judge refuses to send child to family abroad amid trafficking concerns

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, Non-Attendance At School, Placement Breakdown

    Care order extension until 18 refused, two-year order granted

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Reunification

    Reunification planned in review of short care order

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Abroad, Criminality, Sexual Abuse

    Eight interim care orders extended on consent

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Access

    Access with father adjourned for forensic risk assessment after two-year delay

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Addiction

    Interim care order extended as parents wait for addiction treatment

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Lack Of Service

    Full care order hearing rescheduled due to delay with assessment

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Newborn

    Interim care order extended for baby of mentally ill mother

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Habitual Residence, Placement Breakdown, Residential Placement, UK / United Kingdom

    Court considers case of Irish child in care in UK under Irish care order

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.