Suffer five or more of these and you are officially a "troubled" family. Ministers estimate that £9bn of public money is spent on these households every year, or £75,000 per family.
The Prime Minister’s offer of £448m for the next three years will cover 40 per cent of the cost of dealing with the families once results have been achieved, and councils will have to foot the remaining 60 per cent.
But the sum shows the scale of the challenge facing local areas: £448m divided by 120,000 equates to £3,733 per family. If that is 40 per cent of the cost of dealing with these families, and councils must meet the other 60 per cent, then the total spend per family stands at £9,332.50. But what can councils really do for a troubled family with just under £10,000 spread over three years?
Price of intervention
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