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<p>The Department for Work and Pensions is working with a range of key stakeholders
and with other Departments to take forward the framework we set out in <em>Improving
Lives: Helping Workless Families.</em> We are making progress on delivering its objectives.
For example, Public Health England will run a trial of the Individual Placement and
Support approach, starting in spring 2018. And our vital work on reducing parental
conflict is boosted by the Chancellor’s budget announcement to increase available
funds up to £39m until 2021.</p><p> </p><p>As part of this work, we also published
two delivery tools – a local data report and a Family Evidence Resource – to enable
local commissioners and practitioners working with families and children to understand
and act on the factors of disadvantage in their local area. We continue to engage
with local authorities and others to test, refine and promote these resources.</p><p>
</p><p>In addition to our statutory duty to publish annual data on the statutory indicators
of parental worklessness and children’s educational achievement, we will also publish
the latest data on the non-statutory indicators each year, in line with the commitment
set out in <em>Improving Lives: Helping Workless Families. </em></p>
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