An independent evaluation of Action for Children’s Intensive Family Support service, which provides one-to-one support for “troubled families”, found that the initiative improves school attendance and reduces youth offending.
Cost effectiveness research by the Centre for Child and Family Research at Loughborough University shows that there was improved school attendance in two-thirds of children being supported and reduced young offending rates in nearly 70 per cent of 11- to 16-year-olds.
Potential costs that could be avoided by local authorities were calculated at up to £130,471 per family, if the programme resulted in children not being taken into care when they may otherwise have been.
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