So a woman with an anxiety disorder, who is a parent, who has no qualifications, and is therefore out of work and has a low income, so can not afford all the clothes and food they might need, is a “neighbour from hell”. G) Family cannot afford some food/clothing items Jonathan found their definition was:Ī family which satisfies at least 5 of the following 7 criteria:Į) one parent with longstanding disability/illness It turns out that they are from the Department for Communities and Local Government. Just who are these ‘problem families’ and ‘neighbours from hell’, who are so expensive, and “are responsible for the problems in society”?
Jonathan Portes did some digging, to work out exactly where the PM’s figures had come from. We need to look higher up than that.Ĭameron goes on to describe how expensive these ‘problem families’ are to society, with examples like a family visiting A&E “for things like self-harm”. “We’ve known for years” is quite a poor replacement for evidence (a bit like “it’s common sense”), and personally I doubt that a small number of problems are responsible for the kinds of problems in society that I see. Last year the state spent an estimated £9 billion on just 120,000 families Whatever you call them, we’ve known for years that a relatively small number of families are the source of a large proportion of the problems in society. Some in the press might call them ‘neighbours from hell’. Officialdom might call them ‘families with multiple disadvantages’. In December, David Cameron made a speech about troubled families. We certainly know one when we see (or hear) one, and house moves can be filled with anxiety about what the new neighbours will be like.
It tends to involve loud music late at night, harassment, dogs barking non-stop or turning a shared garden into a junkyard. Most of us have had a neighbour from hell at some point in our lives. She suspects it may be the other way round. Philippa writes about a speech in which Prime Minister David Cameron bemoans poverty as a cause of societal problems.
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