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Child Benefit claims can be made online for the first time.

• Updated: 3 January 2024

Up to £165 million new funding to help families get their lives back on track announced.

• Updated: 5 January 2020

Almost 400,000 families have been helped by the Troubled Families programme.

• Updated: 28 March 2019

Further details of how the £5 million emergency Grenfell Tower Residents’ Discretionary Fund will be distributed, has been confirmed by the Prime Minister.

• Updated: 18 June 2017

Prime Minister Theresa May earlier today met with victims of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

• Updated: 17 June 2017

First annual report, setting out how the current Troubled Families Programme has been supporting the most disadvantaged families.

• Updated: 4 April 2017

New plans to help workless families break the cycle of disadvantage have been announced, as part of building a fairer society.

• Updated: 4 April 2017

The guidance will cover everything from requests for flexible working to additional time off.

• Updated: 27 March 2017

Launch of new Childcare Choices website means parents now able to find available government support.

• Updated: 22 March 2017

Op-ed by Communities Minister, Lord Bourne.

• Updated: 15 October 2016

Eligible dads can now share up to 37 weeks’ pay and up to 50 weeks of leave with the child’s mother in the first year of their baby’s life.

• Updated: 20 June 2016

The Prime Minister announces new support including Help to Save, a national mentoring campaign and increases in the National Minimum Wage.

• Updated: 14 March 2016

David Cameron gave a speech on life chances, explaining how the government intends to transform the lives of the poorest in Britain.

• Updated: 11 January 2016

David Cameron will announce a doubling of government funding for relationship support and pledge to take action to deal with poor parenting.

• Updated: 10 January 2016

Local authorities can bid for a share of a new fund to support the victims of domestic abuse.

• Updated: 24 August 2015

The Prime Minister has praised the Troubled Families programme as new figures showed the scale of its unprecedented success.

• Updated: 22 June 2015

Ministers have backed proposals to extend the approach of the successful Troubled Families programme into other local services.

• Updated: 16 March 2015

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

The Communities Secretary has hailed the life-changing impact of the government’s Troubled Families programme, which has now turned around more than 105,000 of the hardest to help households in England.

• Updated: 10 March 2015

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Plans announced to do more to get some of England’s hardest to help families back to work.

• Updated: 18 January 2015

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

Work of the Department for Communities and Local Government during Christmas Recess.

• Updated: 6 January 2015

First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government