Current policies: troubled families programme

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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

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Concerns

Moral panic to adolescents (public reaction to a person/group created by the media)

Amount of dependency on benefits

Society being unstable

Environment not being safe

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Success rate:

Freedom of information act was used to get a more accurate account of success rate from authorities

Success rate was 100% in some areas but many deemed this inaccurate

Many local authorities just said this to prove that the programme was working

They considered a family to be fixed when the family was 'turned around' when actually this just meant there rates had decreased e.g. crime rates