According to the Public Accounts Committee, the Government’s two ‘troubled families’ programmes are both behind schedule and need to ‘speed up’ progress in order to meet their targets.
The Department for Communities and Local Government’s (DCLG) ‘Troubled Families Programme’ aims to change the lives of 120,000 families identified as having multiple and complex social, health and economic problems by May 2015, with a budget of £448 million.
The Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) ‘Families with Multiple Problems Programme’ has a budget of £200 million to find employment for 22 per cent of individuals being targeted by its scheme.
In its report, the Committee says that the DCLG’s programme is 13 per cent behind its own expectations of performance.
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