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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:

    1

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Voice Of The Child

    Solicitors for young people in care present their cases

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    28

    Categories:

    Access, Newborn, Parents In Care

    Care extended for baby of former child in care

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    27

    Categories:

    Foster Care, Section 47

    Foster parents denied funding for treatment

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Africa, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse

    Orders granted for teenage African girl

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Africa, Emotional Abuse, Ethnic Minority, Neglect, Physical Abuse

    Reasons for Care Orders for African children given after 40-day hearing

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Abroad, Mental Health, Mental Health Act

    Interim Care Order to permit psychiatric assessment in another jurisdiction

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Access, Behavioural Problems, Neglect

    Access reduced for mother of “very troubled little boy”

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away, Parents Dead

    Serious concern for absconding teenager whose mother died

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Addiction, Non-Attendance At School

    Supervision Order granted for two children amid concerns about school

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    1

    Case number:

    16

    Categories:

    Abroad, Alcohol, Criminality

    Care Orders for children whose parents could not be located

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.