Recently, a mother came into a family court with her young baby and new partner. While he had never taken drugs, she had a heroin habit that had gone on for some years, which was affecting her parenting abilities.
She pleaded for a residential assessment and said boldly that she had found a family centre that would take her and the baby. However, only when the court adjourned and asked her lawyer to ring the centre to check if it was ready to take her in the very near future, was it disclosed that the centre would not take her until she had proved herself to be free of drugs, which at present, she was not.
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