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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:

    7

    Categories:

    Addiction, Drugs, Reunification

    Mother told children can return if she deals with drug problem

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Abroad, Access, Domestic Violence

    Supervision Order for baby whose siblings in care

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    13

    Categories:

    Access, Funding

    Funding to support travel to access discussed

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    22

    Categories:

    Africa, Cognitive Disability, Funding, Lack Of Service, Physical Disability

    Interim Care Order for African boy with complex needs

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Cases adjourned when lawyers came off record

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Alcohol

    Seven-day Interim Care Order while awaiting legal representation

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    10

    Categories:

    Non-Attendance At School, Traveller

    Supervision Orders to ensure Traveller children attend school

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Abandonment, Abroad

    Parents consent to full Care Order until 18 for boy where neither parent wanted responsibility

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    3

    Categories:

    Newborn, UK / United Kingdom

    Interim Care Order for 17-day-old baby

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    4

    Case number:

    12

    Categories:

    Additional Issues, Newborn

    Care Order granted for baby where mother unable to give instructions

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.