The national evaluation into the effectiveness of the Troubled Families programme has concluded that the government's flagship initiative has had little impact on the lives of the people it worked with.
For critics of the programme, the long-awaited report from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) has confirmed their suspicions that the scheme was not worth the £440m the government invested in it, nor a further £900m spent on its expansion last year.
The NIESR findings, and subsequent media furore over them, has also called into question how ministers and civil servants interpret and use evidence to validate the success of policies.
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