Troubled families tsar Louise Casey is stepping up pressure on councils to implement government plans to support 120,000 families whose lives are blighted by crime, antisocial behaviour and truancy.
Efforts to increase provision of free childcare and expand the troubled families initiative will be monitored by new taskforces, the government has announced.
The government will miss its target to turn around the lives of 120,000 "troubled families" unless it speeds up the rate of success, a group of MPs has warned.
Local authorities will be able to bid for funding from a £5m government fund to boost the work their Troubled Families teams do with young people involved with gangs and serious youth violence, it has...
