The Government has announced that all eligible councils have agreed to run the Government's Troubled Families programme in their area. The payment by results programme - which aims to turn around the lives of 120,000 troubled families in the next three years - sees the Government contibute 40% of the real costs of dealing with those families, with the remainder, in theory, being saved by councils from not intervening in those cases. Helen Tucker, partner in social housing litigation at Anthony Co...