Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
11th June 2012, 09:06
Good that they have a clear target (they will all be un-troubled by 2015, in time for the next election).
A tedious attempt to reach out to liberal voters (yes, we're cutting a number of services, but we've got a back-up plan of sorts for all the troubled folk).
Every eligible council in England is to take part in the government's programme to tackle the problems of "troubled families", ministers are due to say.
The news represents an expansion of a scheme under which local authorities get financial incentives to tackle some of the 120,000 families said to cost the taxpayer £9bn every year.
Ministers have said they want to turn around these families' lives by 2015.
Labour says government cuts limit the impact of family intervention schemes.
The government says the 120,000 families are to blame for a significant share of social problems because the adults are usually on benefits for life, their children are often absent from school and the police are regularly called to their homes.
The estimated £9bn they cost the public purse each year relates to spending on them with regards to the NHS, the police and social services.
Under the government programme, councils are being encouraged to join up the efforts of the various agencies involved with these families - from social workers to teachers, police officers and doctors.
(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18391034)
Also...
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57337000/jpg/_57337898_012602854-1.jpg
'I understand you're troubled...let me help'
A tedious attempt to reach out to liberal voters (yes, we're cutting a number of services, but we've got a back-up plan of sorts for all the troubled folk).
Every eligible council in England is to take part in the government's programme to tackle the problems of "troubled families", ministers are due to say.
The news represents an expansion of a scheme under which local authorities get financial incentives to tackle some of the 120,000 families said to cost the taxpayer £9bn every year.
Ministers have said they want to turn around these families' lives by 2015.
Labour says government cuts limit the impact of family intervention schemes.
The government says the 120,000 families are to blame for a significant share of social problems because the adults are usually on benefits for life, their children are often absent from school and the police are regularly called to their homes.
The estimated £9bn they cost the public purse each year relates to spending on them with regards to the NHS, the police and social services.
Under the government programme, councils are being encouraged to join up the efforts of the various agencies involved with these families - from social workers to teachers, police officers and doctors.
(More at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18391034)
Also...
http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/57337000/jpg/_57337898_012602854-1.jpg
'I understand you're troubled...let me help'