How did the role come about?
The government is investing £448m over three years in its payment-by-results scheme targeting families with multiple problems, including involvement in crime or antisocial behaviour, truancy or exclusion from school, and unemployment. Local authorities have been charged with identifying these families and will receive funding for achieving outcomes such as reducing antisocial behaviour and improving school attendance.
Every top-tier local authority has been asked to employ a troubled families co-ordinator to oversee the delivery of the programme. The role is funded directly by government, which has budgeted around £51m for such posts. All councils have now recruited or are in the process of recruiting, apart from the Isles of Scilly, which says it does not have enough applicable families to make the role worthwhile.
What do these co-ordinators do?
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