Headlines, PublicNet: 19 June, 2012
All 150 larger councils have taken the Community Budget cash offer to help them in turning round troubled families in their areas.
Communities and Local Government have drawn on the budgets of six other departments so that a three-year budget of £448 million is available to support councils who sign up to the scheme. It is estimated that some 120,000 families put a £9 billion drain on public spending, amounting to £75,000 per family per year, with £8 billion of this spent on reacting to, rather than getting to the root causes of their problems.
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