Child Care Law Reporting Project. (2015) Child Care Law Reporting Project: case histories 2015 volume 1. Dublin: Child Care Law Reporting Project.
External website: http://www.childlawproject.ie/publications/
The Child Care Law Reporting Project was established to examine and report on child care proceedings in the courts.
In this volume we focus on a special category of child care cases, those involving children who must be cared for in a secure unit in order to receive the therapy they need. These are children with severe problems, who require to be detained for their own protection. They may be suicidal or self-harming, or engaging in such anti-social behaviour as to be a threat to others. Because they have not be convicted on any criminal offence, the power to detain them is only vested in the High Court, and their detention must be regularly and frequently reviewed to verify that it is still required, so they come before this court on a regular basis, on what is known as the “Minors’ List”, heard every Thursday.
As in previous volumes, a number of cases involved the children of parents who were abusing drugs, alcohol or both. Some had been in care themselves. These included a case where an infant was found in a car on a cold night with two adults who were about to smoke heroin, and where the child had a gash to his neck he said was caused by his father.
- Bed in secure care created for at-risk minor following several hearings
- No secure place for Boys Town teenager returned to Ireland
- Three teenagers attempted self-harm while under review in High Court
- High Court hears boy cannot return to Ireland because of lack of services
- Care Order until 18 for child whose father offered to abuse her online
- High Court rules infant must return to parents’ jurisdiction for care proceedings
- High Court accepts transfer of infant to Ireland
- Interim Care Order renewed pending High Court application
- Supervision Order for baby discharged after a year
- Social worker can apply for naturalisation for non-national girl
- Interim Care Order for baby found at night in car
- Full Care Orders for three children following shorter orders
- Fears for child leaving care
- Care Order granted for child of drug addicts
- Care order for mother with mental age of a ten year old
- Care Orders for children whose parents could not be located
- Written judgement outlines proportionate basis for orders
- Increased access for grandmother
- Judge to speak to girl who kept absconding from care
- Care Orders granted for children in relatives’ care
- Supervision Order granted for two children amid concerns about school
- Serious concern for absconding teenager whose mother died
- Access reduced for mother of “very troubled little boy”
- Interim Care Order to permit psychiatric assessment in another jurisdiction
- Reasons for Care Orders for African children given after 40-day hearing
- Orders granted for teenage African girl
- Foster parents denied funding for treatment
- Care extended for baby of former child in care
- Solicitors for young people in care present their cases
- Pre-Christmas applications in District Court list
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