Four years after phase one of the Troubled Families Programme was launched in April 2012, the government has published impact, economic and process evaluations of the scheme.
Key findings in an independent report by Ecorys commissioned by the Department for Communities and local government and published this month, showed that changes in employment, benefit receipt, school attendance, safeguarding and child welfare, could not be attributed to the troubled families programme.
When it was launched in 2012, the troubled families programme was the first national and systematic attempt to improve the lives of families with multiple problems.
The scheme is so far estimated to have cost more than £1bn, including £450m from central government.
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