Rolling out FDAC: using care proceedings to help families overcome their substance misuse problems and keep their children safe

Jo Tunnard  RyanTunnardBrown

'Imagine a child about to be born to a mother misusing substances. The mother could have treatment costing about 12K with a 40 per cent chance of the child then able to stay with her mother. If you were being child centred you would say ‘yes’ to that [from FDAC] because it would improve the likelihood of the child staying in her family.' (Assistant Director Social Care at FDAC national network meeting in 2014)

A national network meeting last week brought together people from 12 local authority areas to develop their plans for opening their local FDAC next year. A mix of children’s social care senior managers family court judges and administrators and public health officers they spent the day with colleagues from the four established FDACs (London Milton Keynes & Buckinghamshire Gloucester and East Sussex) to share knowledge and best practice.

Sessions dealt with the challenges of:

• developing and funding...

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