£864k bid to help troubled households
8:49am Thursday 18th October 2012 in News
A TEACHER is among the new posts created to help turn around Bolton’s most difficult families.
Bolton Council has been given £864,000 from the government which will help bosses target 300 of the borough’s 830 “troubled families” in the next 12 months.
The teacher is one of two posts to have been created to help get the families back into work or school and to prevent them committing crime.
Town Hall chiefs say the move will strengthen the team which has already started working with families they have identified as falling into the “troubled” category.
The teacher will work at the pupil referral unit, Youth Challenge, which helps children who have difficulties settling into mainstream schools to have a better education while also helping those who are at risk of being excluded from mainstream schools. It has previously won praise for turning troubled teenagers into responsible and ambitious citizens.
The other post is a support role to help with administration of the scheme.
Both jobs would be funded by the government’s troubled families initiative money and would be for a fixed three-year term.
A Bolton Council spokesman said: “We have been working with troubled families for the past six months and these appointments will further strengthen and form an important part of the team.”
The troubled families initiative is a government-funded scheme to help families change their lives and is intended to ease the burden on the taxpayer. Research shows that Bolton’s 830 “troubled families” cost the taxpayer more than £62 million each year.
Each of the families cost the public sector £75,000 per year in benefits, on cash being spent by the police and council in dealing with anti-social behaviour, crime, truancy and health interventions, which includes everything from trips to accident and emergency to long-term medical problems.
More funding will be given to town hall bosses if the scheme is successful.
Its success will be judged by any reduction in the number of truanting children, or unemployed parents getting jobs.
The Bolton team is headed by a troubled families strategy group, chaired by the council’s director of children’s services, Margaret Asquith.
Comments(10)
PDY
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10:10am Thu 18 Oct 12
OF COURSE NOT, how would the social workers and support services continue to enjoy their pay and inflation proof final salary pensions without the sort of low life this money is targetted toward. The more support systems and workers you introduce the more the low lifes will expand to take advantage of their services.
_A5HA11_
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10:46am Thu 18 Oct 12
_A5HA11_
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10:54am Thu 18 Oct 12
Hahaa just Google zyklon b
Can you imagine the up raw from the goodie too shoes of England if they used that on people,
But at least it’s "killing" two birds with one pellet
underwater
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7:50pm Thu 18 Oct 12
dougie kay
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8:28pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Citizen Cane
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2:00am Fri 19 Oct 12
_A5HA11_
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9:58am Fri 19 Oct 12
dougie kay wrote:Dougie don’t hate, procrastinate
A5HAII. I presume by the standard of the spelling, in your comment . That you use numbers to sign your self in ,because you can't spell your name
I use numbers in my name because it’s original and different. I have more important things to worry about then making sure I’ve spelt my comments right on the Bolton news web page. Clearly you on the other hand don’t. Bet you sit at home watching J/K on the TV whilst sticking your thumb up your ar.se thinking he's some sort of dictionary up on his high horse, looking for spelling mistakes in peoples comments and commenting back as what can only be described as a p.iss poor attempt to be somewhat funny. you may think your funny slating my name, who the f.uck is called dougie these days BTW, instead of slating my name I think you need to go and have a word with yourself and think of a new name as clearly you can't think of a decent one and if it’s your actual name hahhaa your parents must of hated you or just wanted to see you get bullied at school. how about putting a comment about the article as this is what the comment box is used for or are you one of these troubled families who needs "more" money from the decent tax payer as you can get out of your house because of what society will think of you and your family. Any way got to get back to work now, spell check this Bitc.h !!!
Changeit!
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9:11pm Fri 19 Oct 12
dougie kay
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9:31pm Sun 21 Oct 12
_A5HA11_ wrote:A5HA11, YOU HAVE A JOB now that is a surprise ! seems I was wrong to comment on the standard of your spelling. All the obscenities in your answer are correct. Sadly though it appears your skills in normal conversation seem somewhat lacking still that's life. before I sign of ,two things who or what is J/K , and who read you my comment,
dougie kay wrote:Dougie don’t hate, procrastinate
A5HAII. I presume by the standard of the spelling, in your comment . That you use numbers to sign your self in ,because you can't spell your name
I use numbers in my name because it’s original and different. I have more important things to worry about then making sure I’ve spelt my comments right on the Bolton news web page. Clearly you on the other hand don’t. Bet you sit at home watching J/K on the TV whilst sticking your thumb up your ar.se thinking he's some sort of dictionary up on his high horse, looking for spelling mistakes in peoples comments and commenting back as what can only be described as a p.iss poor attempt to be somewhat funny. you may think your funny slating my name, who the f.uck is called dougie these days BTW, instead of slating my name I think you need to go and have a word with yourself and think of a new name as clearly you can't think of a decent one and if it’s your actual name hahhaa your parents must of hated you or just wanted to see you get bullied at school. how about putting a comment about the article as this is what the comment box is used for or are you one of these troubled families who needs "more" money from the decent tax payer as you can get out of your house because of what society will think of you and your family. Any way got to get back to work now, spell check this Bitc.h !!!
Nibelung says...
9:18am Thu 18 Oct 12