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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:

    14

    Categories:

    Access, Additional Issues, Sexual Abuse

    Putative father asked to leave court pending DNA test

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Access

    Circuit Court discharges Care Order on appeal

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    10

    Categories:

    Neglect

    Supervision Order for child in cold and dirty conditions

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Alcohol

    Three applications withdrawn by CFA

  • Year:

    2015

    Volume:

    2

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    Care Order for child whose mother suffered from mental health problems

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    17

    Categories:

    Autism, Mental Health, Residential Placement, UK / United Kingdom

    Air ambulance to take child with complex needs to specialist unit in UK

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    25

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Voice Of The Child

    Judge appoints solicitor appointed for 16-year-old girl

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    5

    Categories:

    Mental Health

    ECO for teenager who reports mother to Gardaí

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    24

    Categories:

    Behavioural Problems, Physical Abuse

    Supervision Order for boy who assaulted mother

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Voice Of The Child

    Young people give evidence during reviews of Care Orders

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.