This issue focused on the support and services available for parents who are caught up in a cycle of returning to court in care proceedings on many occasions and losing multiple children to public or kinship care or to adoption – commonly referred to as ‘recurrent care proceedings’. It highlighted that parents experiencing recurrent proceedings are likely to be dealing with complex and unresolved trauma and covered some of the support services available – with a particular focus on the Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC), a therapeutic, problem-solving court approach that supports parents to overcome the issues that led to their children being regarded at risk of serious harm.
Newborn babies and care proceedings was a bulletin for professionals involved in safeguarding babies at or close to birth that provided links to a range of resources to assist them in this complex area of work.
