Project: Family Drug and Alcohol Court
Purpose: To help substance-misusing parents involved in care proceedings and potentially keep more families together
Funding: Around £13,000 per family, covering assessment and treatment for up to a year. Funded by six London authorities: Camden, Westminster, Islington, Lambeth, Hammersmith and Fulham, and Southwark
Background: The 2003 Hidden Harm report by the government's Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, estimated there were between 250,000 and 350,000 UK children with substance-misusing parents.
Parental substance misuse features in around two-thirds of care applications yet there were concerns not enough was being done to address the issues due to factors such as poor co-ordination between children's and adult services.
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