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<p>As was announced on the 22 June 2015, the original Troubled Families Programme
(2012-2015) worked with and turned around the lives of 116,654 families. The new and
expanded Troubled Families Programme was rolled out nationally in April 2015 and will
reach up to a further 400,000 families with multiple problems. Details of how many
troubled families are engaged in the new programme, in its first year of implementation,
will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p>Research estimates that the cost to
the public purse of the most troubled 120,000 families before engagement with the
Troubled Families Programme was £9 billion in total; an average of £75,000 per family
(DCLG: ‘The Fiscal Case for Working with Troubled Families’ (2013)). £8 billion of
this spend was purely reacting to their problems. Information about the fiscal benefits
resulting from that programme will be published in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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