By 15 June, 47 couples had participated in the pilot scheme and 23 had followed it through to the final stage of parent planning sessions.
This compares favourably to figures revealed in March, when only 25 couples had been referred in the first six months of the project and six had made it to the parent planning stage.
District judge Nicholas Crichton, resident judge at the Inner London Family Proceedings Court, one of the scheme's pilot sites, admitted it had "got off to a very slow start" but said some families were "showing every sign of getting a lot out of it".
Junior minister Maria Eagle said last week that the Government had estimated up to 1,000 couples could have been "eligible for consideration" in the pilot over the course of a year.
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