troubled families Articles

There are more children in this country raised by kinship carers, commonly grandparents or older siblings, than there are in care or who are adopted. Earlier this week Tristram Hunt MP proposed a package of reforms to enable more children, who cannot live safely with...

Josh MacAlister is spearheading a revolution in social work empowering both families and practitioners Three years ago only 10 Oxbridge graduates applied to go on social work courses. In 2013, 200 students from Oxford and Cambridge alone attempted to join Frontline, a...

Labour needs to learn to let go, says Jim McMahon 'If we had gone into marriage guidance counselling at that point,’ says Jim McMahon of the relationship between Oldham council and its residents two years ago, ‘the counsellor might have said: “Do you know what, it...

We need to ‘think family’ and work back from there, argues Jayne Moules From unemployment to drug and alcohol dependency, the public sector’s approach to supporting families struggling with multiple problems is often silo-driven and disjointed. The ‘families...