Our report arguing that claims of success for the Troubled Families Programme were ‘too good to be true’ was cited this morning on the Radio Four Today programme.
The programme also heard from Professor Jonathan Portes, formerly of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research (...
The publication by the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of a report into the Troubled Families Programme is 'a complete dressing down' for the Government, the Centre's Deputy...
The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies announced today that it will be holding an event to discuss the origins, evaluation and prospects for the government’s Troubled Families programme on Friday 20 January...
Last November the Centre published The Troubled Families Programme: the perfect...
The announcement by the influential House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of an inquiry into the Troubled Families Programme has been welcomed by the Centre.
The announcement follows media reports that an independent...
Commenting on the leak of the independent Troubles Families evaluation, described as ‘damning’ of the project by a senior civil servant, our Deputy Director, Will McMahon,...
On Monday, the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies published the views of an anonymous...
Having followed The Guardian coverage of the Troubled Families programme over the last year or so, I feel a strong need to air my frustration and flesh out the growing incredulity in...
Theresa May has announced that Police and Crime Commissioners should have the power to set up free schools for 'troubled children', The...
Today’s Guardian quotes Jonathan Portes of the National Institute of Social and Economic Research in its coverage of our report on the...
A key government programme supposedly targeting the most troubled families in England is probably wasting millions of pounds a year and is working with the wrong families in the wrong way, according to a new report published today by the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies. The report,...
No social policy can expect to achieve a 100 per cent success rate. Yet according to government, the Troubled Families Programme has achieved almost exactly that.
