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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:

    5

    Categories:

    Advocate, Drugs

    Court rules parents should have advocates for continuing case

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability

    Care order granted for one year where mother cognitively impaired

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    17

    Categories:

    Criminality, Physical Abuse

    Allegations against father prompt Interim Care Order application

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    29

    Categories:

    Access

    Review of care order where child displaying anxiety after access

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away, Traveller

    Child in care goes missing following family funeral

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Aftercare, Mental Health

    Aftercare review for child with fragile mental health

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Domestic Violence, Neglect, Physical Abuse, Sexual Abuse

    Care Orders for children in and out of care for three years

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Emergency Care Order refused for child at moderate risk of suicide

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Mental Health

    Mother with mental age of 8 sees child go into care

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Abroad, Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, Religion

    Care Order for Muslim teenager whose parents left Ireland

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.