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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:

    11

    Categories:

    Asian, Unaccompanied Minor

    Medical tests sought for young Asian asylum seeker

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Abroad, Unaccompanied Minor

    Emergency Care Order for children travelling without verified guardian

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, Homelessness

    Children “not dolls to be thrown around” by the CFA: Mother

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Neglect, Reunification

    Girl remains in care amid delays towards promised reunification

  • Year:

    2016

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    Categories:

    Introduction

    Case Histories 2016 Volume 2 – Introduction

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Access, Disability, Lack Of Service, Reunification

    “State has fallen down in its obligations” to mother seeking reunification – Judge

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Addiction, Newborn

    Care Order for infant of addicted mother

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    CAMHS, No Mental Health Service, Special Care

    High Court judge refuses to place child in secure care unit pending inquiry into psychiatric services

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs

    Case adjourned when mother opts for voluntary care

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Neglect, Traveller

    Interim Care Order where mother had low cognitive ability

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.