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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:

    7

    Categories:

    Homelessness, Parents Dead

    Interim care order extended though homeless mother uncontactable

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Homelessness, Mental Health, Newborn

    Consent for extension of interim care order of infant where mother homeless

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Parents In Care

    Court of Appeal upholds High Court refusal to release child from CFA

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Special Care

    Seven cases feature in High Court Minors’ List

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Special Care, UK / United Kingdom, Wardship

    Girl in special care made a Ward of Court to allow transfer to UK

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Newborn

    High Court quashes emergency care order for newborn removed at birth as disproportionate

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Change Of Placement, Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse

    Emergency change of foster placement in light of non-accidental injury and suspected sexual abuse

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Access

    Access to young child suspended temporarily by District Court

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    28

    Categories:

    Drugs, In Prison

    Drug issues and parents in prison concern District Court in rural town

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    27

    Categories:

    Parents Dead

    Interim care order for child whose mother deceased

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.