The government’s troubled families programme is set to be
expanded to focus on 500,000 households. David Cameron is expected today (18
August) to announce a series of polices designed to put family life at the
heart of government policy. He is expected to announce that the troubled
families programme will now seek to help 500,000, as opposed to 120,000
households as originally intended. The programme, launched in August 2011 in
the aftermath of the riots that hit London and other English cities, aims to
‘turnaround’ the lives of people with troubled lives. Read more on Inside
Housing.
Country diary: The challenge of making a thatched roof pine-marten proof |
Tom Allan
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*Glenisla, Angus:* Damage by squirrels is common; the mustelid less so.
Still, as a local told me, ‘you cannae blame them wanting somewhere to live’
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