Whitehall cannot rip up Troubled Families programme

摘要

I wonder if David Cameron is spending his summer lamenting the old adage 'all political careers end in failure'. As if the spectacular crash and burn of the Brexit saga were not enough, now the BBC is hailing the Troubled Families programme as a further disaster of the Cameron era. According to the BBC, the scheme has failed and councils have exaggerated its success in a bid to boost their funding. So should the sector abandon its groundbreaking policy shift based on the Newsnight verdict?