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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:

    16

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Need to formalise situation of girl in voluntary care for almost eight years

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, UK / United Kingdom

    Problem with service of documents on mother in UK

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Aftercare, Wardship

    Success story for child in care for three years

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Homelessness, Reunification

    Reunification planned with mother recovering from heroin addiction

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Reunification

    Plans for the reunification of 18-month old baby with teenage mother

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Habitual Residence, Newborn, UK / United Kingdom

    District Court decides infant brought to Ireland from UK is UK resident

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    10

    Categories:

    Abroad, Habitual Residence, Non-Attendance At School

    Care order heard over four days in rural town, EU jurisdiction raised

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Criminality, Sexual Abuse

    Care Order proceedings resume in rural town

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse

    Judgment awaited three months after care order hearing concludes

  • Year:

    2018

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Section 47

    High Court asked to state case on Section 47 powers in relation to a mother with an intellectual disability

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.