<qa>  What is the new Orleans Intervention Model?The investigators have carried out careful exploratory research, in Glasgow, on an intensive approach, which was developed in the United States. This is was investigators have called this the New Orleans Intervention Model NIM. NIM offers families who have a child who enters care due to abuse or neglect a structured assessment of family relationships followed by an intensive treatment that aims to improve family functioning and child mental health. If adequate change is achieved a recommendation is made for the child to return home but, if not, the recommendation is for adoption. Preliminary research from the US suggests that NIM might reduce future maltreatment of the child and other children in the family, and improve mental health in middle childhood. 