The Future of the Troubled Families Programme:
Supporting Families with Multiple Disadvantages
Supporting Families with Multiple Disadvantages
Central London
Tuesday 12th February 2019
Lord Blunkett
Former Home Secretary
Member of the House of Lords
Nicky Adams
Programme Leader (Families and CPD)
Action on Addiction
Matt Serlin
Family Counsellor
Action on Addiction
Danielle Mcleod
Head of the One Front Door Project
SafeLives
Charisse MoneroHead of Service -Together with Families & Transformation
Harrow Council
Alison Baum OBECEO and Founder
Best Beginnings
Kate Wareham
Director - Young People and Families
Catch 22
The ‘Troubled Families Programme’ is a targeted government intervention for families with multiple problems including crime, anti-social behaviour, truancy, unemployment, mental health problems, and domestic abuse. The first phase of the programme ran from 2012 to 2015, during which period the Government claimed to have “turned around” 99% of the 117,910 families that had been identified as the target. However, subsequent independent evaluation analyses questioned the validity of these claims and the methodology underpinning them.
In March 2018 the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government published an evaluation report for the second and last phase of the programme which covers the period 2015-2020. The report estimated that by December 2017 a total of 289,809 eligible families for whom local authorities had received funding had been, or were being, worked with in whole family way, compared with only 2,000 families in the period 2006 and 2010 prior to the introduction of the programme. During the second phase, the Troubled Families programme introduced a range of new tools, including a new financial framework that took effect in January 2018. The “Earned Autonomy” financial model has been piloted on 11 local authorities and aims at serving as an alternative to the payment-by-results model, by providing upfront payments to help support families and accelerate change across local services.
Whilst the programme has achieved significant progress in transforming service provision and the lives of thousands of people, the multiple disadvantages on which the criteria for a ‘troubled family’ is based, are still having a detrimental impact on the lives of many households in England. There are three million households (14.3%) where no member of the family has employment (ONS, 2018), with 1.3 million children living in workless households. The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimated that 26% of women and 15% of men aged 16 to 59 had experienced some form of domestic abuse since the age of 16, while households comprising of single adults with children were more likely to be victims of domestic abuse. It is therefore evident that more needs to be done to address the structural issues that lead to this cycle of deprivation and disadvantages.
As the Troubled Families programme enters its final year, this timely symposium will provide practitioners across local authorities, the police, social services, education, welfare and the housing sector with a timely and invaluable opportunity to learn from the first stage of this scheme and discuss how to effectively galvanise a range of local services around families in order to support them.
Delegates will:
In March 2018 the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government published an evaluation report for the second and last phase of the programme which covers the period 2015-2020. The report estimated that by December 2017 a total of 289,809 eligible families for whom local authorities had received funding had been, or were being, worked with in whole family way, compared with only 2,000 families in the period 2006 and 2010 prior to the introduction of the programme. During the second phase, the Troubled Families programme introduced a range of new tools, including a new financial framework that took effect in January 2018. The “Earned Autonomy” financial model has been piloted on 11 local authorities and aims at serving as an alternative to the payment-by-results model, by providing upfront payments to help support families and accelerate change across local services.
Whilst the programme has achieved significant progress in transforming service provision and the lives of thousands of people, the multiple disadvantages on which the criteria for a ‘troubled family’ is based, are still having a detrimental impact on the lives of many households in England. There are three million households (14.3%) where no member of the family has employment (ONS, 2018), with 1.3 million children living in workless households. The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) estimated that 26% of women and 15% of men aged 16 to 59 had experienced some form of domestic abuse since the age of 16, while households comprising of single adults with children were more likely to be victims of domestic abuse. It is therefore evident that more needs to be done to address the structural issues that lead to this cycle of deprivation and disadvantages.
As the Troubled Families programme enters its final year, this timely symposium will provide practitioners across local authorities, the police, social services, education, welfare and the housing sector with a timely and invaluable opportunity to learn from the first stage of this scheme and discuss how to effectively galvanise a range of local services around families in order to support them.
Delegates will:
- Assess the progress made on the second phase of the Troubled Families Programme
- Review findings from the “Earned Autonomy” model from the piloted areas
- Determine how to sustain the support after the completion of the programme
- Examine ways to enhance multi-agency working to transform the health, social and financial circumstances of those families
- Share best practice and discuss innovative strategies to improve the lives of families with complex disadvantages
- Consider ways to support families in navigating services and find practical pathways to employment
- Explore how to deliver an effective whole family intervention approach
- Identify ways to improve educational attainment and child welfare
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