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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:

    3

    Case number:

    17

    Categories:

    Mental Health Act

    Mental Health Act application granted for child in care

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    7

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Eight child care cases among 86 family law cases in one day

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    8

    Categories:

    Additional Issues

    Orders in 13 child care cases in one day

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    4

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Physical Abuse, Publication, Sexual Abuse

    Care Orders for five very young children following abuse allegations

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    14

    Categories:

    Disability

    Parents with disability agree to children remaining in care

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    9

    Categories:

    Mental Health, Mental Health Act

    Child involuntarily detained under the Mental Health Act

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    23

    Categories:

    Religion, Section 47

    Father makes application to get daughters to attend mosque

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    11

    Categories:

    Addiction, Sexual Abuse

    Interim Care Order for young girl with sexualised behaviour and language

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    1

    Categories:

    Alternative Placement, Foster Care, Funding

    House extension to be built for close relative of children in care

  • Year:

    2014

    Volume:

    3

    Case number:

    6

    Categories:

    Emotional Abuse, Foster Care

    Young boy emotionally abused by foster carers

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.