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Families at risk: background on families with multiple disadvantages
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The report aims to show the dramatic impact that parent–based family circumstances have on the outcomes and life–chances of children. It demands a more family–focused approach from agencies that work with adults and those that work with children. It looks at the most excluded 2% of families who have not been lifted by the rising tide of living standards and increased opportunity, and who remain in poverty with complex needs, multiple problems and low aspiration
Think family: improving the life chances of families at risk
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 29p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The vast majority of families are a source of strength and protection. However, they can also face challenges. Parental and wider family problems such as poverty, parental worklessness, lack of qualifications, parental mental health, substance abuse, poor housing, and contact with the criminal justice system can cast a shadow that spans whole life-times and passes down the generations. These family experiences can limit aspiration, reinforce cycles of poverty, and provide poor models of behaviour that can impact on a child's development and well–being, with significant costs for public services and the wider community. They damage the ability of children to build up resilience to problems or to benefit from the opportunities they are given. At the moment adults' services don't sufficiently take account of the implications for the family when, say, an adult is taken into prison or has mental health problems.
Reaching out: progress on social exclusion
- Author:
- GREAT BRITAIN. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Social Exclusion Task Force
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This publication details progress in tackling poverty and social exclusion over the last decade, as well as the progress already made on the commitments in the Social Exclusion Action Plan published in September 2006. The Action Plan covered: nurse family partnership pilots aiming to tackle exclusion in the early years of life; multi-systemic therapy pilots providing support to young adults with complex needs; and pilots targeting improved service provision to adults facing chronic exclusion. The next steps for the Social Exclusion Task Force will be: families at risk review and performance management - considering how a cross-government Public Service Agreement (PSA) could help excluded adults and families.