There are just two years of funding remaining for areas working on the national Troubled Families programme. But instead of winding down activity, some local authority commissioners and partners are finding ways to deepen the influence of the programme.
The concept is to work with the most disadvantaged families in a local area, and through addressing the range of complex needs of the whole family, sustainably improve their outcomes. Since 2010, the number of families worked with has risen to nearly 300,000.
Impact
The pernicious, tangled effects of the challenges that families face are well known - poor adult mental health or substance misuse, domestic abuse and parental conflict, poverty and worklessness. There are signs that the Troubled Families programme is tackling these issues. The national impact study and annual report shows that following an intervention:
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