Family courts are a revolving door for too many parents | Paul Burstow

Family drug and alcohol courts can help break the patterns that blight children’s lives; this innovation should be shared

How do we upgrade the family justice system so that it disrupts patterns of family violence, drug abuse and mental distress, which blight children’s lives, at great human cost and expense to the taxpayer?

These behaviours of violence, drug abuse and mental distress are passed down from generation to generation. They are amplified by traumatic childhoods, social isolation and social injustice. Standard care proceedings fail to address them.

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