![]() We have shown that we can work together across organisations, professional cultures and silos to support those in need of early help. The programme will continue to support recovery by helping children back to school, helping those who have lost their jobs get back to work, by helping young people avoid crime, protecting mental health and by tackling domestic abuse. I am proud that the innovation and agility seen in local areas, who are tackling COVID-19’s impact on families, has often been underpinned and accelerated by the programme’s work. We know that the programme prevents children in families from entering the care system, reduces the likelihood of involvement in crime and helps families into work.ĬOVID-19 saw local areas drawing on service level transformations achieved since 2012 to ramp up multi-agency collaboration, data sharing and governance in response to the global pandemic. Over time, this model has been proven to work, through robust national evaluation examining data sets from across government and the local sector. More than ever before, services are working together in schools, children’s centres, family hubs and in local communities, to deal with emerging concerns through early help that takes a whole family approach. While the programme continues to support families experiencing acute problems, the work to connect local systems together is reaching many more. ![]() At its heart, the national programme then and now, is about locally delivered early help for families, led by the keyworkers and local partners who know their areas and families best.Īs we look towards the future, to national recovery from the global COVID-19 pandemic and to building back better, we are taking stock. Children, parents and carers are most able to build resilience with services at their side who know them well and can offer trusted guidance. Great things happen when families build on their strengths, call on their support networks and tackle their problems head on and early on. Our vision is to ensure that those families who need support so get it at the right point, in the right way, as early as possible. Now is the time to be even more ambitious in helping families to thrive. Our 2019 manifesto committed to improving the programme and we are looking to what has changed, what works and how best to deliver outcomes into the next year and beyond. I am pleased that up to £165m of additional funding for the programme was announced at the 2020 Spending Review. It started out as the Troubled Families Programme almost a decade ago and since then, has grown in scope and ambition, evolving through three distinct phases. We also know that the reach of this approach has been much broader, with more than 870,000 families worked with in a whole family way between 20.That is why now is the right time to rename the programme, to reflect what it does in principle, and in practice. ![]() The programme has already helped families make extraordinary improvements in their lives with more than 400,000 positive outcomes achieved since 2015. It has delivered for families under three different government administrations, while wider society and the way in which local services are delivered look very different today. Supporting Families has been on a journey with families, local authorities and their partners since it began in 2012.
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