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'Great strides' for troubled families?

Alex Stevenson investigates DCLG’s troubled families unit progress update, now the £448m payment by results programme has reached half-way point.

It seemed too good to be true.The coalition's three-year troubled familiesprogramme, which marked its halfway stage last week, has already 'turned around' 22,000 struggling households.

Barely a word of criticism emerged after Eric Pickles praised councils' ‘great strides' in their efforts.

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