last december i asked emma harrison to develop a plan to help get these families on track. it appeared to me earlier this year as so often can happen in government, those plans were being held back by bureaucracy. even before the riots happened, i asked for an explanation. as the riots have happened, i will make sure we clear away the red tape and the bureaucratic wrangling and put rocket boosters under this program. i have a clear ambition that within the lifetime of this parliament we will turn around the lives of the20,000 most troubled families in this country. the next part of the social fightback is what happens in our schools. we need an education system which reinforces the message if you do the wrong thing you'll be disciplined but if you work hard and play by the rules, you can succeed. this isn't a distant dream. it's already happening in schools like woodside high in totten ham and many schools in this constituent iscy. they expect high standards from every child and don't me excuses for failure to work hard. they foster pride through strict uniform and behavior

emma harrison who is involved in this work, one of the things she says is that in some families you find there's just no tradition of actually sitting around and eating together and talking about problems. everything is just everything is juseverything is just on the go, in front of the tele. you never talk aboutng - pc1blems with y t live their lives in a different way where they confront problems and deal with them. and you can't really expect the hard-pressed social worker who has masses of problems about children that might need tbe taken into care because of child abuse, it's quite difficult for social workers that are currently set up to have the time to really spend with a family and actually work out how could you deal with things better, how could you help spend time together, how could you deal with your problems together? so what we find is a lot of these families have masses of contact with the state they've got the g.p. over here the social worker there they've got the child a lots of contact but no one is spending time trying to help rearrange things so that they can deal w

last december i asked emma harrison to develop a plan to help get these families on track. it became clear to me earlier this year that -- as can so often happen -- those plans were being held back by bureaucracy. so even before the riots happened, i asked for an explanation. now that the riots have happened i will make sure that we clear away the red tape and the bureaucratic wrangling, and put rocket boosters under this program, with a clear ambition that within the lifetime of this parliament we will turn around the lives of the 120,000 most troubled families in the country. the next part of the social fight-back is what happens in schools. we need an education system which reinforces the message that if you do the wrong thing you'll be disciplined, but if you work hard and play by the rules you will succeed. this isn't a distant dream. it's already happening in schools like woodside high in tottenham and mossbourne in hackney. they expect high standards from every child and make no excuses for failure to work hard. they foster pride through strict uniform and behavior p