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As part of our Early Help service, we offer the Supporting Families Programme. The Supporting Families Programme. (Formally known as the Troubled Families Programme) is a programme of targeted intervention amongst families with multiple issues. It encourages multi-agency working amongst partners and early intervention. This reduces public spending on high-priority families.
Families must have three criteria from our outcome plan:
Our Supporting families outcome plan (PDF) is guidance that helps us identify the current issues the families are facing so we can support the family more effectively using a multi-agency approach.
The following document shows how Bedford Borough Council has performed against our initial programme target, and how we compare with the national average of successful outcomes.