BLOG: Troubled families? Or troubled stats?

Writing in the Huffington Post, BASW's press officer looks at  the statistics being used to promote the Troubled Families initiative: "This cavalier attitude to statistics is further compounded by another report this week by 'troubled families Tsar' Louise Casey, laying claim to some astonishingly successful findings - in effect, that her and Mr Pickles' initiative has waved a magic wand over some of society's most intractable ills."