More than 600 listeners from the local government, children and families sectors joined MHCLG’s webinar to mark the next phase of Supporting Families (formerly the Troubled Families Programme). Eddie Hughes MP, Minister for Rough Sleeping and Housing, with responsibility for Supporting Families, thanked professionals …
Find out about how Oldham's Community Transformation model is driving a whole population, whole system and placed based approach to early intervention and prevention.
Nearly a third of children aged 10-11 years in England are either overweight or obese. To help tackle this Public Health England has developed a suite of practical resources to support health and care professionals to enable children, young people and families to make positive food choices to achieve a healthier weight.
Alima Qureshi from the Troubled Families Team went to Copenhagen to see how it combines social care, employment and health services. Find out what she learned.
Transforming public services to work with families with multiple and complex problems in an integrated, whole-family way, is one of the Troubled Families Programme’s objectives and is key to delivery of the local programme in Cambridgeshire. This includes helping all …
Dorset was one of 12 ‘Local Family Offer’ areas working with Department for Work and Pensions to seek ways of reducing the negative impact of inter-parental conflict on children and young people. Staff surveys of County Council employees showed that …
Background School Home Support works with a number of young people who are or have been at risk of knife related crime. A strong multi-agency approach, clear information sharing, and knowledge of the local area and its resources are fundamental …
*This is a real life story describing a family's experience of transforming their lives through the support of the Troubled Families Programme in Liverpool. It is expressed in her own words with some names altered to protect identities. 'On the 5th of February 1993 …
Technology is changing everything around us and slowly but surely it is also transforming public services; from tax collection and midwifery to social care and welfare. The latest advances in technology - from machine learning to sophisticated data management - …
In March 2015 our small Citizens Advice office moved into Moorlands House in Leek, a local authority building which houses a range of services including adult and child safeguarding, council tax recovery, benefits, housing options and the Families Intervention Project …
You may have heard about predictive analytics – but what does this mean for those of us who are shaping or delivering services for vulnerable people? Let’s start with some definitions: The term ‘predictive analytics’ is used for assessing large quantities …