Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced at last week's Labour conference that family intervention projects (FIPs) would be extended as part of a multi-pronged approach to tackle antisocial families.
It will involve 50,000 "of the most chaotic" families being targeted by the end of the next Parliament, which would mean a four-fold increase for the programme.
But Maureen Nuttall, strategy development manager at Action for Children, which runs 23 FIPs, told CYP Now it will be difficult to recruit sufficient numbers of skilled social workers to increase provision to such a level.
"Projects run by Action for Children are working to capacity," she said. "Negative perceptions around social work at present are putting people off coming into the job, which is going to add to the burden of trying to recruit people of the skill level required."
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