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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:

    1

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Alcohol

    Three interim care orders extended in rural town

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Concerns about paternity as interim care order extended

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Application to vary care order adjourned to different court jurisdiction

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Access, Lack Of Service

    Timely assessments and access dominate child care day in District Court

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Residential Placement

    CFA must exercise child’s “right to be forgotten”

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Abroad

    Care order application adjourned to address citizenship concerns

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Alternative Placement, Behavioural Problems

    Supervision order for 16-year-old boy moved to care of grandparents

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Residential Placement

    Court adjourns care review of a nine-year-old boy in residential care

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Alternative Placement, Residential Placement

    Mother opposes extension of care order for boy in private unit

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    17

    Categories:

    Access, Voice Of The Child

    Views of child sought in dispute over access

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.