Communities Secretary Eric Pickles hopes the take-up among all county councils and unitary authorities will ensure the government is on course to help 120,000 of England’s most troubled families over the next three years.
Pickles said: “Everyone will benefit from getting kids off the streets and into school; getting parents off benefits and into work; and cutting youth crime and antisocial behaviour.”
The cost of successfully transforming the lives of families is estimated to be around £10,000.
Councils will be able to claim up to £4,000 in government money for each family if they are successful in either reducing youth crime, truancy and antisocial behaviour or by taking an adult in the family off benefits and into work. Councils are expected to raise the rest of the cost of supporting families themselves.
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