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A senior DH official has urged GPs to play a greater role in helping troubled families. Watch a video of Louise Casey, head of the DH troubled families programme at this year's RCGP conference below.
Ms Casey said that individual doctors as well as CCGs could support families and help the children living in troubled households, and argued that recent high-profile cases making headlines showed how without intervention such families can go badly wrong.
Watch the video here:
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