Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the continuation of Family Drug and Alcohol Courts.

A network of local Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC) operates across England offering important support to families. Local FDACs are funded by those local areas who choose to establish or commission these services locally.

We have recently established the Children’s Social Care What Works Centre which will help local areas to better understand the evidence base so they can make more informed decisions about which programmes to commission to suit local needs.