Nursery World - Troubled Families programme on track to help 120,000 'high-risk' households

New figures from the Government’s Troubled Families programme show that halfway into the three-year programme, more than fifty-per-cent (62,000) of the 120,000 identified households are being worked with.

The data for September to October shows that the lives of more than 22,000 ‘troubled families’ have been 'turned around', up from 14,000 three months prior.

The Department for Communities and Local Government, which administers the programme, said as a result of the scheme more children are back in school, levels of youth crime and anti-social behaviour have significantly reduced and over 1,400 ‘hard to help’ adults are now in work.

According to communities secretary Eric Pickles, the payment-by-results initiative remains on track to meet the Prime Minister’s target of turning around 12,000 families by 2015.

The statistics also show that 92,000 families, over three-quarters of the 120,000, have now been identified by councils as meeting the criteria for the payment-by-results programme.

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