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Flagship scheme had 'no discernible' impact
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Newsnight has learnt that the government's flagship response to the 2011 riots, the Troubled Families programme, had "no discernible" impact on unemployment, truancy or criminality, according to an analysis.
The report - seen exclusively by ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Newsnight - is embarrassing for ministers, who had trumpeted previous data suggesting 98.9% of families in the scheme had been "turned around".
Our policy editor Chris Cook reports.
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