The social cost and lost opport-unities for children and families is a national tragedy in its own right. The Relationships Foundation puts the latest cost of relationship breakdown and family break-up at £46bn a year. This cost of dealing with complex family problems is crippling local budgets and hampering our national economic recovery.
Help for families to get their lives back on track when problems spiral out of control requires intensive and costly intervention from a range of specialists who have experience to tackle deep-rooted, complex family problems. The government's Troubled Families programme was established to provide precisely this type of intensive support and "turn around" by 2015 the lives of 120,000 most disadvantaged families.
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