On Monday 16 December the Child Care Law Reporting Project published its fourth volume of case reports. The project is run by Dr Carol Coulter. The project was set up in November 2012 to report on cases where the HSE seeks orders involving child protection. These orders may be Care Orders, taking children into care either temporarily or until they are 18, or Supervision Orders, where social workers can visit vulnerable children in their homes.
The fourth volume includes cases concerning a Roma child taken into emergency care following a report that she did not look like her parents; four African children taken into interim care arising out of allegations of physical abuse at the hands of their parents and the case of a young baby who suffered life-threatening injuries while in the care of its parents. The first case in the report concerned the non-accidental injury caused to a young baby while in the care of her parents. Following 17 days of evidence spread over six months, the judge granted a one year Care Order for the child and her brother, who was also young, subject to the parents, the extended family and the HSE participating in a programme specially designed to deal with cases where children suffered abuse at the hands of their parents.
The fourth Volume brings to over 100 the number of reports of such cases published by the Law Reporting Project.
Click here to read the case reports contained in the fourth volume of the Child Care Law Reporting Project.
Click here to read an article in the Journal about this latest volume.
Click here to read an article in the Irish Times about this latest volume.
Click here to read a PILA Bulletin article about the third volume of cases.