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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:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Newborn, Physical Abuse

    Emergency Care Order for baby with non-accidental injury

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Physical Disability

    Care Order for child of mother with disability

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    16

    Categories:

    Addiction, Alcohol, Drugs, Homelessness

    Full Care Order until 18 granted for child of homeless mother; Judge challenges father’s refusal of responsibility

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse

    Child and Family Agency withdraws Care Order application after 33 days

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    17

    Categories:

    CAMHS, Mental Health

    Review of case of teenage girls needing psychiatric care

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Section 47

    High Court quashes refusal to direct CFA to pay for orthodontic treatment

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs

    Full Care Order granted after expiry of 14-month order due to drug addiction

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    10

    Categories:

    Reunification

    Interim Care Order extended with view to returning three year old

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Four child care cases among 29 cases in provincial district court

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    Access, Sexual Abuse

    Parental access visits denied amid allegations of sexual abuse

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.