Sector calls for an "early intervention Budget", emotional support for primary school children, and troubled families research announced, all in the news today.
Intergenerational domestic violence, sexual abuse, drug and alcohol addiction, neglect and arson are blighting the lives of thousands of children, according to a report by the troubled families tsar.
Councils have missed a first-year target for the number of families they worked with under the government's flagship troubled families initiative.
The expansion of the government's Troubled Families programme is to be speeded up, the Chancellor announced in the Budget.
Labour's former respect tsar Louise Casey is to lead the government's Troubled Families Team, charged with fulfilling the Prime Minister's goal to transform the lives of 120,000 troubled families by...
The government is to spend £200m to expand the Troubled Families programme to a further 400,000 families.
