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What kind of trouble? Meeting the health needs of ‘troubled families’ through intensive family support

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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:05 authored by Janet BoddyJanet Boddy, June Statham, Ian Warwick, Katie Hollingworth, Grace Spencer
The policy rhetoric of the UK Coalition government's ‘Troubled Families’ initiative, and that of New Labour's earlier Respect Agenda, share an emphasis on families’ responsibilities, or rather their irresponsibility, and their financial costs to society. Giving children a chance of a better life coincides, in this framing, with reducing costs for the taxpayer. The research reported here was based on a national study of Family Intervention Projects (FIPs), funded by the UK government between 2009 and 2012, beginning under New Labour, continuing over a period when the FIP programme was discontinued, and ending after the Troubled Families programme had begun. The research involved over 100 in-depth interviews with stakeholders, including service managers, family key workers, and caregivers and children in twenty families, to consider critical questions about the kinds of trouble that families experience in their lives, and how they are recognised in the policy and practice of intensive family intervention.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Social Policy and Society

ISSN

1474-7464

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Issue

02

Volume

15

Page range

275-288

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  • Education Publications

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  • Yes

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2015-11-09

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2016-05-04

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-05-04

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