Home truths — how close are we really to helping children of addicted parents?

A spate of well‐publicised deaths of children of drug‐using parents in Scotland led to a so‐called new policy for protecting young people of substance‐using parents. Amid calls for children to be taken away from such parents Joy Barlow asks what has changed since the government's much acclaimed report Hidden Harm and how, if at all, can social services better protect young people without threatening the family unit and removing the human rights of not just the parents but us all?