Last December the Prime Minister set out his ambition to try to turn around the lives of every troubled family. Research shows that children from families with multiple social, economic and health problems experience the very worse outcomes and make significant demands on a wide range of local services. Intensive family support of the type pioneered by family Intervention projects (or FIPs) has been shown to turn these families lives around and delivered impressive reductions in family problems.
In September the Department for Education published data showing that up to March 2011 over 10,000 families had been supported through intensive family interventions and that these had results in significant reductions in the problems they experience.
This section contains information about the support available to local areas in developing provision for these families, for example, recent announcements, statistics, evaluation and the national 'offer' to local areas developing Community Budgets for families with multiple problems.
