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Government confirms one-year, £165m extension to Troubled Families

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The Troubled Families programme – credited with helping almost 300,000 families living in challenging circumstances – has been given a one-year reprieve after the government confirmed a £165 million funding package.

Troubled Families is a programme of targeted intervention for families with multiple problems, including crime, anti-social behaviour, truancy from school, unemployment, mental health problems and domestic abuse.

The programme has run since 2015 and was due to end in March. However, this month ministers at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) confirmed that funding of £165 million is to be made available to extended the initiative until March 2021.

The programme is credited with achieving a one-third reduction in the proportion of children going into care and has reached 297,733 families since 2015, helping almost 27,000 adults off benefits, according to the government’s evaluation (2019).

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