TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Troubled, troubling or in trouble: the stories of 'Troubled Families'
JO  - British journal of social work
A1  - Wills, Jane
A1  - Whittaker, Andrew
A1  - Rickard, Wendy
A1  - Felix, Claire
SP  - 989
EP  - 1006
VL  - 47
IS  - 4
N2  - The Troubled Families (TF) programme is a national initiative launched in 2011 that aims to identify and work with families defined as 'troubled'. An in-depth case study was undertaken using biographical data from eight 'troubled families' in one London borough. Intensive accounts of their lives were collected and analysed to illustrate the historical events, life experiences, and formal and informal support that may have led to their identification as a 'troubled family'. Current policy discourse characterises such families as dysfunctional with inter-generational problems. The stories recounted here describe families with specific needs who might be regarded as 'in trouble' but they are not 'troublesome'.       Children and families, family support, life history<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0045-3102
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcw061
ID  - ref1
ER  -