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Targeting Families at Risk

Westminster has around 40,000 children aged 0-19, in around 18,000 families. A small proportion of these families, estimated at around 3% of the total (approximately 1,200 children in around 600 families), suffers from various forms of long term disadvantage. These are the families at highest risk of social exclusion, whose problems bring them into contact with a range of statutory and voluntary agencies, on whom a disproportionate amount of public funding is spent, and for whom the outcomes, in terms of overall quality of life, and life chances for their children, are often the worst.

We announced our plan to tackle some of the toughest problems we face in this city identified by Breakdown Britain. At the heart of the need approach will be three new geographically based Family Assessment Teams, which will together manage a caseload of the 600 families at risk.