Government plans to focus its post-riot "social fightback" on getting the most troubled families into work fail to address the broad range of problems facing England's most deprived communities, according to charities in the field.
As part of proposals to "mend society", Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to extend the Working Families Everywhere programme to 120,000 families by 2015. The scheme - run by Emma Harrison, founder of welfare-to-work provider A4E - will use volunteer "family champions" to act as key workers for families, brokering support from agencies and helping them find jobs.
But Rhian Beynon, head of policy at the charity Family Action, said the government's emphasis on workless families is too narrow.
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