➡ From Child Welfare Information Gateway NJ:
United Kingdom: Some big lessons from Troubled Families
BBC News – October 18, 2016
This is despite the work of researchers from the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, who wrote: “Across a wide range of outcomes, covering the key objectives of the Troubled Families Programme – employment, benefit receipt, school attendance, safeguarding and child welfare – we were unable to find consistent evidence that the programme had any significant or systematic impact.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-37691390