Supporting Families Programme
The Supporting Families (previously Troubled Families) Programme aims to support families with multiple disadvantages who can experience poor life outcomes.

Shared appreciation mortgages, their problems and uses; and help for constituents.
Shared appreciation mortgages (109 KB , PDF)
This note outlines some of the basic features and problems of equity release type mortgages. The long period of steady house price appreciation has meant that the sums owed to banks when the mortgage is repaid appear exorbitant to some borrowers. The note illustrates examples of how problems can arise with these financial products and charts the move towards full regulation of them by the Financial Services Authority and then the Financial Conduct Authority.
Shared appreciation mortgages (109 KB , PDF)
The Supporting Families (previously Troubled Families) Programme aims to support families with multiple disadvantages who can experience poor life outcomes.
Unemployment: International Comparisons: Data on harmonised unemployment rates for major international economies.
This paper presents the latest statistics on youth unemployment in the UK as well as comparisons with other EU countries.