In October 2025, Coventry and Warwickshire Family Drug and Alcohol Court (FDAC) celebrated its 10 Year anniversary. I was honoured to be invited to speak at the celebration event in my capacity as Victims Advocate for West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC), a post I took up at the start of April that year.

Since 2022, the West Midlands PCC has funded a specialist domestic abuse social worker for this FDAC team, hence I was delighted to be invited to contribute at the event and properly meet the team.

In preparation for the celebration event, I spent time reading up about the Court’s purpose in more detail, along with the complexity of issues it was dealing with.