Skip to main content

Troubled Families Programme

Question for Department for Communities and Local Government

UIN HL5929, tabled on 8 March 2017

To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is their estimate of how many councils’ Troubled Families programmes help parents work through difficulties in their personal relationships as well as their parenting skills.

Answered on

20 March 2017

A survey of key workers found that 82 per cent provide support to address parenting difficulties and issues with their clients at least once a week. Much of the work done with families supports the family, as a whole, to function.