Introduction: ‘Looking for Trouble?’ Critically Examining the UK Government's Troubled Families Programme

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Crossley, Stephen Lambert, Michael
Copyright Year	2016
Description	The Troubled Families Programme (TFP) was launched by the UK Coalition Government in December 2011. Following the riots that took place in towns and cities across England during that summer, the then Prime Minister David Cameron promised to put ‘rocket boosters’ under plans to ‘turn around’ the lives of the country's ‘most troubled families’ by the end of the Coalition's term of office in May 2015. In his ‘fightback’ speech, delivered just a week after the riots had ended, Cameron (2011a) stated that the riots were not about poverty or race or government cuts. Instead, he argued that that the riots were ‘about behaviour: people showing indifference to right and wrong; people with a twisted moral code; people with a complete absence of self-restraint’.
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Ending Page	85
Page Count	5
Starting Page	81
ISSN	14747464
e-ISSN	14753073
DOI	10.1017/s1474746416000476
Journal	Social Policy and Society
Issue Number	1
Volume Number	16
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2017-01-01
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Social Policy and Society Troubled Families
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations