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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:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    21

    Categories:

    Newborn, Residential Placement

    Judge urges social worker to accommodate challenges from mother

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    20

    Categories:

    Cognitive Disability, Physical Disability

    Care Order granted for a four year-old girl with developmental delay

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    19

    Categories:

    Abroad, Addiction, Reunification

    Children to move home in six weeks

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    18

    Categories:

    Drugs, Parents In Care, Reunification

    Interim Care Order granted while reunification planned

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Addiction, Alcohol, Emotional Abuse, Neglect, Physical Abuse

    Full Care Orders for severely neglected girls

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    16

    Categories:

    Foster Care, Special Care, Voice Of The Child

    Foster parents and child to come to High Court for discussion

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    26

    Categories:

    Abroad, Ethnic Minority, Romani

    High Court hears Roma mother may not leave Ireland with her child

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    2

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Missing In Care / Absconding / Running Away, Neglect, Non-Attendance At School, Physical Abuse

    Care Orders for children who escaped home

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Care Orders refused after children spend years in interim care

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    15

    Categories:

    Ethnic Minority, Parents In Care, Romani

    Interim Care Orders sought for young Roma mother and children

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.