Figures released by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) show that local authorities worked with 35,618 families between April 2012 and March 2013.
The figure is 6,217 shy of the 41,835 target for the first year of the three-year programme, which runs until March 2015.
The statistics, which have been broken down for each local authority, also show that councils have identified 66,470 of the total 118,082 families they have been tasked with “turning around”.
Councils were advised to aim to identify one third of their troubled families in 2012/13, and the remainder in 2013/14
Despite the first-year target being missed, Communities Secretary Eric Pickles described progress as “remarkable”.
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