315 ‘troubled’ families in York

8:54am Saturday 19th May 2012 in News Photograph of the Author By Mike Laycock, Chief reporter

YORK is estimated by the Government to have about 315 “troubled” families – and now funding is being provided for a major drive to help them turn around their lives.

A report to City of York Council’s Yor-OK Board said families were categorised as troubled if there was offending or antisocial behaviour by the under 18s, children were not going to school and parents were out of work.

Now a Troubled Families Partnership has been set up, chaired by council education chief Pete Dwyer, with representatives from schools, housing, police, children’s services, young people’s services, the voluntary sector and Future Prospects, and Linda Murphy has been appointed as York’s Troubled Families co-ordinator.

The report by Judy Kent, Children’s Trust Unit manager, said: “A dedicated keyworker will work with each family to co-ordinate a whole family support plan and to motivate and empower the family to make changes to their lives.

“A pilot scheme has already been launched in the west of the city, based at York High School, with others set to be rolled out in Tang Hall and Clifton in the autumn.”

The report said the Troubled Families’ programme offered an opportunity to build on the learning from a highly successful ‘Catalyst’ Family Intervention Project which had already been running in York.

It said help was set to be given to 124 families in 2012/13, with 99 of them funded via a payment-by results scheme.

Members of the board welcomed the programme as a “brilliant” scheme, which would help families that were in real need and were not always just troubled, but also quite often troublesome, with a poverty of ambition and aspiration.

Mr Dwyer stressed the programme was not a panacea or a solution to all problems but would contribute to existing efforts to help such families.

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smudge1 says...
9:00am Sat 19 May 12

This will get some interesting comments ?

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Boadicea says...
9:57am Sat 19 May 12

All this presumably at the council taxpayers' expense. Lets hope it works, rather doubtful though.

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Trustmeiknoweverything&every1 says...
2:09pm Sat 19 May 12

Sounds abit like, acomb, dringhouses, leeman road, clifton, chapplefields, bellfarm, new earswick, tang hall,clifton travalers, james traveler, osbaldwick travalers,pondaroser travalers. all tied in a knot then. With them breading more poverty too. With little to any public sector jobs with every man and his dog being self employed in the building game or as taxi driver's. one thing is for sure its an overcrowded little city focused on one thing, tourism and favouring those who are not even from york. Good place to life or good place to visit... hmmmm glad im not around york anymore and my business is doing VERY well elsewere. Be nice to hear from those with that lovely im doing better than you York sqwallor attitude comment's that will appear very soon LOL

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Priapus says...
2:38pm Sat 19 May 12

Trustmeiknoweverythi
ng&every1 wrote:
Sounds abit like, acomb, dringhouses, leeman road, clifton, chapplefields, bellfarm, new earswick, tang hall,clifton travalers, james traveler, osbaldwick travalers,pondaroser travalers. all tied in a knot then. With them breading more poverty too. With little to any public sector jobs with every man and his dog being self employed in the building game or as taxi driver's. one thing is for sure its an overcrowded little city focused on one thing, tourism and favouring those who are not even from york. Good place to life or good place to visit... hmmmm glad im not around york anymore and my business is doing VERY well elsewere. Be nice to hear from those with that lovely im doing better than you York sqwallor attitude comment's that will appear very soon LOL
Have you found some way to dump the contents of your brain into the comments section without the use of keyboard, grammar, logic or syntax?

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R'Marcus says...
5:00pm Sat 19 May 12

If people want to turn around, they can, without public money.
It they don't want to improve themselves, let them sink in the mire.

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hula says...
7:07pm Sat 19 May 12

Trustmeiknoweverythi
ng&every1 says...
2:09pm Sat 19 May 12

Sounds abit like, acomb, dringhouses, leeman road, clifton, chapplefields, bellfarm, new earswick, tang hall,clifton travalers, james traveler, osbaldwick travalers,pondaroser travalers. all tied in a knot then. With them breading more poverty too. With little to any public sector jobs with every man and his dog being self employed in the building game or as taxi driver's. one thing is for sure its an overcrowded little city focused on one thing, tourism and favouring those who are not even from york. Good place to life or good place to visit... hmmmm glad im not around york anymore and my business is doing VERY well elsewere. Be nice to hear from those with that lovely im doing better than you York sqwallor attitude comment's that will appear very soon LOL”
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..I know what you are trying to say despite your spelling but you are absolutely right!!!!!!!...So called 'TROUBLED FAMILIES? It does not matter how much money from taxes of hard working law abiding peoples money you throw at this lot,nothing will change,leopards rarely change their spots..Most of the above are takers,not givers to society and most if not all would say "We get a rough deal" ..We have to steal,cheat,be anti - social to survive!!!!

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Mentos says...
9:43pm Sat 19 May 12

Waste of time and money. A social engineering tool doomed to fail

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Mullarkian says...
6:59pm Sun 20 May 12

"troubled families"....don't make me laugh!
If you throw money at these people it will make them worse. They are not interested in anything but being disruptive and having something for nothing. God forbid that they should actually work and sort themselves out, like the majority have to.

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ReginaldBiscuit says...
8:09pm Sun 20 May 12

Sterilisation thus ensuring no more troubled families. This of course you cannot do but is a commonly suppressed belief held by many. Bear in mind that in the current mind-controlled epoch, you may only express your views amongst your closest friends for fear of the thought police and thought law which now locks ignorant people up and lets criminals walk free.

These 'troubled' families are probably ill-educated and need nannying. Make them independent and educate them. Isn't that better?

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MarkyMarkMark says...
4:43pm Mon 21 May 12

"These 'troubled' families are probably ill-educated and need nannying. Make them independent and educate them. Isn't that better?"

Isn't that the point of this?
And whilst there's probably some truth in the nasty reactions of some around crime, laziness, unwillingness to change etc., not everyone in that space is there for the some reasons.

I'd suggest if you've never been there, you have no "right" to judge others who are there?

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Kevin Turvey says...
2:39pm Wed 23 May 12

'Troubled Families ' means trouble for everybody else, put them down a deep well or in a sewer with the other rodents.

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