Current policies: troubled family programme

Conservative government: aim to reduce dependency on welfare state, vote catcher

Spend 400 million pounds to assist families with difficulties, will eventually cost 1.3 billion pounds and help half a million families
Didn’t help with criminal offence
Aimed to help people who weren’t working and were in trouble, families who were costing the state a lot of money
Get kids into schools, parents into work and less police callouts where the aim
If rates decreased then families were seen as ‘turned around’
Most has 100% success rate but really are the ‘turned around’ families actually being helped or has their problems just been reduced
Ideology is to reduce the cost of antisocial behaviour and benefit dependency
They want families to become self-reliant and taking responsibility

	Created by Lucinda Adams over 9 years ago

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