FDAC Resources
Cost benefit tool
The tool is designed to provide an estimate of the relative costs and financial benefits of a local FDAC service.
Evidence and practice briefing: FDAC non-lawyer reviews
This briefing seeks to help FDAC practitioners and judges understand the basics and evidence around non-lawyer reviews, how to prepare for them and promising practice principles.
Family Drug and Alcohol Court Service Standards
The FDAC national partnership uses the term Service Standards to describe the key elements that FDAC services should strive toward to have fidelity with the evaluated FDAC model.
Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC)
This briefing outlines what is different about the Family Drug and Alcohol Court approach, and its strengths.
Family Drug and Alcohol Courts under Covid-19: A Practice Briefing
This briefing examines how the nine existing FDACs across England are adapting to service delivery during the current crisis. It highlights the practical challenges facing practitioners, judges and families, and...
Family Drug and Alcohol Courts: An Innovative Approach to Family Justice
This briefing explains how Family Drug and Alcohol Courts (FDAC) offer an alternative way of dealing with legal cases where the Local Authority think that a child might need to...
FDAC: Suitability, scope and success
An article by Andrea Watts 1KBW Chambers in the LexisNexis Family Law Journal.
FDAC: The Case for Investment
This analysis, developed according to the Green Book guidance issued by HM Treasury, clearly demonstrates that the FDAC model provides value for money and generates significant savings to the family...
FDAC: The case for investment (summary)
This paper is a summary of our financial analysis, ‘FDAC: The Case for Investment’.