A team set up to 'break the cycle' of children being born into care is on track to have twice as many service users as was anticipated.
Northumberland County Council set up the Pre-Birth team in September following the "Born into Care" review which looked into the national level of newborns subject to court proceedings.
The research project was a partnership between Lancaster University and Oxford University's Rees Centre, and was commissioned to bring in new guidance to "inform practice when the State intervenes to protect infants at birth, through care proceedings".
