The unit supports the work of the 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 FDAC National Unit is run by the children's charity Coram and Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust. It supports the expansion of FDACs, evaluates their work and provides training as well as helping to coordinate their work on a national level.
It is feared that if it closes, there could be a loss of focus on national efforts to establish FDACs more widely across the country.
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