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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:

    21

    Categories:

    Abandonment, Newborn

    Interim Care Order for “Jane Doe”

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    37

    Categories:

    Disability, Religion

    Judge requires risk assessments before discharging orders

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Neglect

    Four Care Orders after parents concede case “unassailable”

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Foster Care, Physical Abuse

    Judge criticises CFA after child abused in care

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    36

    Categories:

    Change Of Placement

    Court refuses CFA application to move child to relative placement

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Religion

    CFA to explore children’s religious education with local Muslim community

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Alternative Placement

    CFA agrees young woman in care may move to accommodation with baby

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Mental Health

    Judge refuses to extend Interim Care Order

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Physical Abuse

    Interim Care Order extended for boy who alleged assault by father

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Access, Domestic Violence

    Application for access adjourned following threats to estranged wife

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.