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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:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away

    Care Order refused for child missing in care

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Criminality, Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away, Neglect, Voice Of The Child

    Care Order for girl who worries about young brother

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Parents In Care

    Full Care Order for addict’s child refused, shorter order granted instead

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    Foster Care

    Supervision Order application adjourned for legal representation

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    32

    Categories:

    Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away, Traveller

    Care Order discharged for teenager who absconded

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    31

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs

    Emergency Care Order after child found with heroin-using parents

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Criminality, Lack Of Placement, Special Care

    Teenager arrested while awaiting secure care placement

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Addiction, Domestic Violence, Drugs, Witnessed Domestic Abuse

    Review of Care Orders for children with attachment issues

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    10

    Categories:

    Guardianship, Homelessness, Parents Dead, Traveller

    Interim Care Order for child with no legal guardian and no home

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Alcohol, CAMHS, Neglect, Physical Abuse

    “He wished his mother was dead and the problem would be resolved once and for all.”

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.