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The government has announced plans to tackle Britain 120,000 "problem families". But spending cuts and the rising incidence of family breakdown suggests that it is not an easy task

The newly appointed czar of families in difficulty, the colorful Louise Casey, who, among other things, must meet the government's promise to deal with costly and socially disruptive in troubled families Great British 120000. It is by all accounts a great operator, but for this position, you'll have your work cut out.

As my colleague points out that The Guardian Patrick Wintour

"It should produce an action plan in November and has already warned the Prime Minister that there is a high risk of failure if the resources and efforts are dedicated to solving problems . "

He adds:

"One of his first tasks will be to ensure that the three departments [communities and local governments, Labor and Pensions Department of the Interior] work together to produce a program that is tangible but protects the Conservatives have defended local agenda, and also to find a vocabulary that respects the agenda of the "Great Society". "

These tasks will require the experience and guile of a strong character, his long career in the service of civil servants. But the hardest part of his work is outside the village of Whitehall, where the cuts imposed by the local authority of his boss, Eric Pickles, have been quietly destroying the infrastructure of family intervention, it will have to deliver their "tangible" results.

Action for Children charity has developed a "Red Book" for testing the effects of cuts to its family intervention project (FIP) to work in the past 12 months. Action for Children has been a pioneer in family intervention in mid-1990. Currently 30 projects funded by local authorities in the UK, each supporting 100 families. It is the largest UK provider of FIP. Types of families working with on behalf of more than a third of "problem families", the government ordered.

He undertook in-depth interviews with 22 of its projects, which together support around 1263 children and young people and families in 1106. These are the titles of the findings, published today:

. 73% of our family intervention projects was a decline in this year's budget

. Five family intervention projects have seen their budgets reduced entirely by the authorities local and completely closed. Two other family intervention projects are at risk of closing

"In some cases, we find the last position of local service."

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