The 300,000 pilots are designed to prevent parents from takingdisputes to court by using a conflict resolution approach.
Junior children's minister Maria Eagle told Parliament last week that 62parents had taken part in the one-year pilots, which ended in September,and that just 31 completed the programme.
However Anthony Douglas, chief executive of Cafcass, said the approachremained valuable.
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