Council chiefs have lambasted Whitehall failure to embrace community budgets as a 'missed opportunity' for improving the performance of coalition attempts to help troubled families. The comments follow publication on 3 December of a National Audit Office (NAO) report into the DCLG's troubled families programme - which aims to transform the lives of 120,000 chaotic households - and the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP's) families with multiple problems initiative - which aims to place 22% of such households into work by 2015. The DCLG's early-intervention programme was deemed crucial after it emerged that the annual cost of troubled families had hit £9bn.
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