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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:

    2017

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Aftercare, Alternative Placement

    Children in relative’s care need rehousing because of threats

  • Year:

    2017

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Sexual Abuse

    Nearly two years after case started, court sees video of child describing abuse

  • Year:

    2017

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Section 47, Sexual Abuse

    After hearings over 15 months CFA withdraws Care Order proceedings for a second time, children return home under Signs of Safety model

  • Year:

    2017

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Non-Attendance At School, Reunification

    17-year-old leaves care placement and returns to mother

  • Year:

    2017

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Access

    Care Order for 12 months granted for children whose sibling in long-term care

  • Year:

    2017

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    Care Order proceedings resume after year’s adjournment

  • Year:

    2017

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Neglect

    Care Orders for five children where both parents cognitively impaired

  • Year:

    2017

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    CAMHS, Lack Of Educational Support, Mental Health, Special Care, Voice Of The Child

    Child “votes with feet” to return home from step-down placement

  • Year:

    2017

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    16

    Categories:

    Addiction, Cognitive Disability, Domestic Violence, Mental Health

    Extension of Interim Care Order on consent

  • Year:

    2017

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Access

    Father seeks increased access with daughter amid delays in CFA supports

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.