Workless families the focus of £30m support programme.

New support is to be given to struggling families under a £30 million government programme focused on helping parents to find work.

The next phase of the Troubled Families Programme will aim to forge better links between disadvantaged families and Job centres.

Ministers said there was a "profound" affect on children if their parents were unemployed and had other problems.

A new analysis published by the government showed that children in workless families were almost twice as likely not to reach the expected level at all stages of their education.



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