The Department for Education statistics evaluating family intervention projects and services found that there was a significant improvement in the lives of 3,675 families who took part in programmes and have since left.
Programmes offer multi-agency support through a dedicated key worker who offers direct help and is able to refer families for specialist support, around issues such as poor parenting, relationship breakdown, domestic violence, or child protection – or problems relating to health, education and employment, or crime and anti-social behaviour.
Statistics show that among these families who took part in programmes there were reductions of:
The figures show that overall 8, 841 families have been involved in family intervention programmes between January 2006 and March this year.
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