be set up thanks to £150,000 of government funding.
The Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC), which specialises in handling care cases where parents have a substance abuse problem, is to be extended as a result of positive findings from the London pilot.
Set up in 2008 by Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust and the children's charity Coram, the DfE said both the NHS trust and Coram will be involved in developing the new FDAC sites, once a decision on where they are to be located has been reached.
The FDAC differs from more conventional care proceedings in that parents involved see the same judge throughout, who meets them fortnightly to assess their progress.
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