PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Troubled Families Programme (26 February 2018)

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many and what proportion of families on the Troubled Families Programme had one or more children who were categorised as Children in Need in each of the last 12 months for which data is available.

Asked by:
Alex Burghart (Conservative)

We track the characteristics of families on the Troubled Families Programme through our National Impact Study, which uses national administrative datasets. In our latest dataset 43.9 per cent of the 79,616 families for whom we have linked data had at least one child categorised as a Child in Need.

This means that children in families on the programme were eleven times more likely to be classified as a Child in Need than those in the general population. The latest Children in Need data we have access to is for families who joined the programme before the end of March 2016, and so our results are subject to time lags.

Answered by:
Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
5 March 2018