The prime minister recently announced a new plan to kick-start social recovery and ‘troubleshoot’ dysfunctional families. Under this scheme, the government plans to invest £450 million into families; providing more case workers, probation officers and social workers. While forty percent of the total bill is expected to be provided by central government, the remaining sixty percent is to be provided by local councils. Those in opposition appear sceptical as to the worth of the scheme, highlighting that the funding must be gained by cuts to other key areas. In this way, the prime minister has been accused of ‘taking with one hand while giving with the other’.