Gordon Brown's inspiration - how has it worked?

A few weeks before he became prime minister, Gordon Brown visited a block of flats in a deprived suburb of Dundee and has vowed to introduce the model nationwide, targeting 50,000 of Brtain's most chaotic families. How has the Dundeed project worked?

Rather than whipping children away into the hands of the social services, the Dundee Families project sweeps the whole family into its care, says The Guardian.

Drug-addicted mothers are monitored as they receive treatment, parents with wildly out of control children are taught how to handle them, families who have been repeatedly evicted because of their antisocial behaviour learn how to control their lifestyles. But can family intervention – clear rules and clear punishments – help solve Britain's antisocial behaviour problems? Has the Dundeed Families project continued to deliver - and how?

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