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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:

    2

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Court refused substituted service by text

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Addiction, Alcohol, Drugs, Newborn

    Drug addiction results in third baby being taken into care

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Criminality, Neglect, Physical Abuse

    “It was sore when she hit me”

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Criminality, Sexual Abuse

    Care Order refused, sought because of 23-year-old child abuse conviction

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Disability, Romani

    Care Order for abandoned child with severe disabilities

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Lack Of Service

    Judge frustrated at assessment delays

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Access, Addiction, Alcohol

    Access increased for mother recovering from alcoholism

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Alcohol, Drugs, Neglect, Non-Attendance At School

    Full Care Order granted for five-year-old in care since baby

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Newborn

    Interim Care Order renewed pending High Court application

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    30

    Categories:

    Access

    Pre-Christmas applications in District Court list

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.