As long as the money comes for a new baby, some women will continue to get knocked up and produce more income. Think of that bloody scrounger known as octomom.

Single mothers will have up to £3,000 deducted from child support to cover the cost of chasing their former partners. Ministers expect up to 300,000 single parents to stop pursuing their ex-partners for cash when the new Child Maintenance Service starts charging fees next year.

There's a new angle. Anyone up-to-date on this? I've not seen in mentioned in the media.

“One of the families I interviewed had six social care teams attached to them..."

"Miss Casey also says that many troubled families have officials monitoring all aspects of their lives without “getting stuck into the actual family.”

"Under the £448 million programme, each family will have a dedicated worker whose job is to turn them around"

I wonder if Miss Casey is capable of recognising where the problems really lie; which is indicated in the three sections of the article I have picked out above. But the third quote suggests not. Because is it not already the jobs of those six social care teams and officials to turn these families round? And since they have so clearly and spectacularly failed, why should throwing another £448 million of our hard-earned taxes at the problem to stick yet another "dedicated worker" into the mix make any difference?

It won't. Because none of those teams or officials - or indeed the new dedicated workers, when they appear - will have the slightest intention whatsoever of solving any problems created by these families. They are only there for the ride: to perpetuate the problems, exacerbate them, agonise over them, wring their hands and complain how insoluble they are - anything but solve them. Because if they solved them they would be out of a job. And that would never do.

Miss Casey also seems to have a very simplistic faith in the education system; indeed the article indicates that her view is that you only have to get these children into school and keep them there, and the problems will all melt away. If that were true, there would really be no problem at all, would there? You wouldn't need an army of social workers flapping uselessly around the family for year after year, dysfunctional generation after dysfunctional generation; all you would need was a few tough enforcers who won't take no for an answer to get the kids out of their homes and into school in the mornings. Job done.

Except of course it wouldn't be.

Miss Casey has a huge task on her hands, and something tells me she is not up to it.

But then again, she was never intended to be. Those problem families are too lucrative and too necessary for the massive, bloated social welfare industry. The object of the execrcise is therefore not to solve anything, but just to give the impression that "something is being done" while - hopefully beyond the understanding of us stupid, gullible plebs who have to pay for the whole, monstrous, stinking racket - the industry continues to grow, feeding on the problems it is instrumental in creating and perpetuating. And Miss Casey's efforts are just a sideshow designed to distract us.

all you would need was a few tough enforcers who won't take no for an answer to get the kids out of their homes and into school in the mornings. Job done.

Hmm, Sounds like a Father, or Mothers job to me. Since the Fathers are not in the picture, Time for the Mothers to "MOM UP" and do the very basic task of getting your kids to school in the mornings. Since Moms don't want to do the job, perhaps a few jobs could be created for ex military Warrant Officers or Sergent Majors to dump these kids out of bed and get them motivated to get their asses to school.

But wait, you can't have MEN do that job, after all social work has become a majority female career path. You can't have the government create jobs for men that place them in contact with children.

There is an obvious reason why problem families have too many kids: sex outside of marriage.

Miss Casey has a huge task on her hands, and something tells me she is not up to it.

Yes Paul.
But Miss Casey has a big government paycheck from Big government. All she has to do is say what her paymasters want to hear.
She can cry all the way to the bank.

Responsible parents take care of their own children. They resent paying tax so that the state can curb the anti-social behaviour of less responsible parents.

But what they really resent (those who even think about it), is their money being used to pay the salaries of people like Miss Casey.