Research and analysis

Supporting Families spend evaluation: final report

Local spending of funding for the Supporting Families programme between 2022 and 2025.

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 25 June 2026

Applies to England

Documents

Supporting Families spend evaluation: final report

Ref: ISBN 978-1-83870-820-7, RR1595

PDF, 1.35 MB, 94 pages

Details

The Supporting Families programme (formerly Troubled Families programme) ran between 2013 and 2025.

It funded whole family, multi-agency and early support for families. It received an additional £200 million for programme delivery until March 2025, taking the overall funding to £696 million.

There was significant variation in local spending patterns, but the report finds that, between 2022 and 2025, funding was primarily used to:

• support staffing
• invest in:
  • training
  • infrastructure 
  • commissioned specialist services

The study highlights the challenges in:

• tracking expenditure where Supporting Families funding was combined with that from other sources
• assessing the impact of additional investment, owing to the available data being insufficient

Published 25 June 2026