The unit supports the work of 10 family drug and alcohol courts (FDACs), which bring the judiciary and multi-agency services together to help substance-misusing parents involved in care proceedings to quit their addiction and keep their family together.
The unit has relied on Department for Education innovation funding since 2015 but this money runs out in September and it is faced with closure unless a new source of income is found.
Following an urgent meeting in the House of Lords attended by, among others, former children's minister Tim Loughton, Labour shadow children's minister Emma Lewell-Buck, and retired District Judge Nicholas Crichton, who helped establish the first FDAC in 2008, Nagalro described the government's decision not to continue funding the unit as "short-sighted and financially illiterate".
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