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Specialists' numbers to double to aid chaotic households

The number of welfare-to-work specialists seconded to the coalition’s flagship troubled families programme will be more than doubled, ministers have announced.

By MJ reporter | 20 January 2015

The number of welfare-to-work specialists seconded to the coalition's flagship troubled families programme will be more than doubled, ministers have announced.

Communities secretary Eric Pickles and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith have jointly pledged a new £10m investment to increase from 150 to more than 300 the number of specialist employment advisors supporting the initiative that aims to turnaround 400,000 chaotic households.

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