The government’s “troubled families” project is to be extended to help a further 400,000 households who have financial and social problems.An additional £200m will be made available to help “high-risk” families address challenges of worklessness, anti-social behaviour and truancy.Ministers say the current three-year scheme is already on track to help 120,000 families in England by 2015.But campaigners say tackling entrenched problems will require more resources.The new funding, for 2015/16, is being made available by the Treasury as part of Wednesday’s Spending Review. ‘Groundbreaking’The initiative is designed to identify families with a number of deep-seated problems – including welfare dependency and a history of drug and alcohol misuse – and to provide intensive and co-ordinated support to help them turns their lives around. The government says the cost of dealing with one troubled family, in terms of their interaction with the NHS, social services and the police, can be as much as £15,000 a year and investing a third of that on early intervention and tailored assistance will reduce the overall burden.”These families cost the government about £9bn in public spending,” said Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander.”By getting services to work together, by helping families to deal with their… Read full this story
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