50,000 'chaotic' families to be sent to behaviour training centres

Thousands of Britain’s most “chaotic” families will be dispatched to a new network of training centres to improve their behaviour, Gordon Brown has announced.

Telegraph
By Simon Johnson, Scottish Political Editor

The Prime Minister said “every one” of the country’s 50,000 most disruptive households will be forced to attend a family intervention project.

He told the Labour conference in Brighton that a “no nonsense approach” to deal with children who indulge in anti-social behaviour and their parents.

Mr Brown promised that all 50,000 families would be sent to a project by the end of the next parliament, in 2014 or 2015, and would be punished if they refused.

The projects deliver what the Government terms “intensive, one-on-one, hard-edged support” for families where drugs, drink, bad parenting and persistent joblessness are a problem.

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