The "deliberate and intentional policy" of the Child and Family Agency (CFA) not to apply to the High Court for a special care order to put an at-risk teenage boy in a secure unit was unlawful, a judge has ruled.

The president of the High Court has authorised the taking of legal action against State agencies over their alleged “appalling” failures over years to protect a child from alleged sexual abuse by more than 12 males.

The mother of a teenage boy, who missed more than 270 days of school, has been spared a jail sentence for neglecting his education.

A social service provider has been ordered pay a whistleblower €31,649 for unfairly dismissing the project worker.

The High Court has struck out proceedings by retired garda sergeant Maurice McCabe and his family against the State, the HSE and the Tusla/Child and Family Agency (CFA) following successful mediation talks last week.

A High Court judge has quashed a decision by Tusla that a teenage boy should not be given a special care placement.

Tusla, the Child and Family Agency has secured High Court orders allowing it to place a teenager being pimped to men by her girlfriend for money and drugs at a secure facility for troubled teens.

A teenage boy has been engaging in criminal and drug-related activity which could lead to him becoming a target for gangland figures because of a refusal to return him to a secure care unit, the High Court has heard.

The uncertainty surrounding Brexit is probably behind "unusual" delay by the UK authorities in clearing the way for the transfer of a vulnerable high-risk teenager in care here to a specialised unit in the UK, the president of the High Court has said.

The Child and Family Agency is seeking court protection for a vulnerable young man taken into care with his siblings some years ago amid concerns of sexual abuse, violence and neglect in the family home.

TUSLA, the Child and Family Agency (CFA) obtained more emergency care orders (ECOs) for babies aged less than 12 months old than for any other age category amongst children in 2017.

The Child and Family Agency (CFA) TUSLA has obtained an interim care order for a baby girl it had taken steps to protect even while in her mother’s womb.

A mother whose newborn baby boy was forcibly removed from her at a maternity hospital due to serious concerns of possible risk to his health and life if she left hospital with him is claiming damages against the Child and Family Agency.

A judge has told a mother that to deprive a child of education “is child abuse of the worst kind”.

Complex child protection cases are taking years to move through the courts, plagued by multiple adjournments, poor co-operation between gardaí and social workers, limited judicial resources and limited specialist services for the victims of child sex abuse.

Judges dealing with cases of potential child sex abuse and serious mental health issues have expressed their deep frustration with the lack of appropriate facilities for vulnerable children in need of the State’s care.

A 13-year-old boy at the centre of a judge’s threat to jail his parents for Christmas has the learning capacity of a six-year-old due to chronic educational neglect.

A homeless mother who successfully fought an attempt to take her newborn baby into care is entitled to her legal costs after her lawyers had to work for her for free because the State's legal aid system had reached its quota in the month she applied.

A 15-year-old Co. Clare schoolgirl has left school and her home to get married to a "young lad" in the UK, a court heard today.

A grandmother who agreed to take on full-time care of her daughter's three children amid concerns for their welfare has taken proceedings alleging the Child and Family Agency is in "grave neglect" of its duty towards them.

Google has spent millions funding academic research which is favourable to the technology giant, a public interest watchdog has claimed.

A father has been given permission by the High Court to challenge his level of access and information he is being provided about one of his children who is currently in care.

A 16-year-old Dublin boy accused of attacking staff at the State’s top secure therapeutic care centre for troubled youths has been granted bail after he was missing for weeks.

The alleged sexual abuse and brutal treatment of two children, both aged under 10, was “the most disturbing evidence I have read in 20 years on the bench,” High Court president, Mr Justice Peter Kelly stated.

A district court judge has stated that it is “scandalous” that the State is paying a private operator €4,500 a week to house a troubled teen with no services, writes Gordon Deegan.

A district court judge has stated that it is “scandalous” that the State is paying a private operator €4,500 a week to house a troubled teen with no services.

It is “absolutely scandalous” that the Child & Family Agency (Tusla) has placed a troubled teen in an apartment in Co Louth where he is free to roam around a town until 11pm every night, a judge has stated.

A five-year-old boy employed by his mother to steal a basket of clothes from Penneys couldn’t lift the basket because of the weight and instead had to drag the basket out of the store.

An out-of-control 11-year-old girl assaulted her classmates and threatened to have them shot and killed, a court has heard, writes Gordon Deegan.

An out-of-control 11-year-old girl assaulted her classmates and threatened to have them shot and killed, a court has heard.

A judge has granted a supervision order to the Child and Family Agency (CFA) after hearing there was a very strong stench of cat urine from five very unkempt, dirty children at their home.

A Dublin couple, whose son aged 13 has been absent from school for four years, have been warned they risk facing a Garda investigation for neglect and their children could be taken into care.

A teenage boy looked up online how he could remove a cast from his arm after his abusive mother refused to accept that his injury was serious.

A judge at the Dublin Children’s Court has compared the litany of shoplifting charges against a 13-year-old girl to something “out of a Dickens novel”.

Life may have spread among the stars like an infectious virus, leaving a distinctive pattern that we can recognise, say scientists.

A teenager with a condition on the autism spectrum is “very distressed” that her return to Ireland next month from a psychiatric hospital in England may not proceed due to a delay in finding a suitable placement for her here, the High Court has heard.

The mother of a teenage girl who missed 179 school days in two years has been fined €200 by Judge John O’Neill at Dublin District Court.

The parents of a boy with educational difficulties have been warned by a judge that they are making things worse by keeping him out of school.

A meeting to decide the future of a youth who is regarded as a shining success story in the Child and Family Agency (CFA) is to be held next week, the High Court has heard.