A “super team” of public sector and education officials is to be established to deal with up to 1,200 problem families.
Brighton and Hove City Council leader Bill Randall has confirmed that the local authority will establish the dedicated unit to ensure help is given to those people who require the most support.
It will include social workers, housing officers, police, fire service and Brighton and Hove City College.
The council hopes this will free up other teams to tackle other issues for the rest of the city’s 250,000 residents.
The news comes after the Government announced 3,000 problem families across Sussex are to be targeted by council “trouble shooters” to help them turn their lives around.
Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to send support workers into the most chaotic households in the UK, rather than a string of officials from different organisations.
The Government has identified 675 “troubled families” in Brighton and Hove, 1,165 in West Sussex and 1,015 in East Sussex.
Support from Westminster will be dependent on success in tackling truancy, crime and antisocial behaviour.
Brighton Kemptown Tory MP Simon Kirby said: “If we can spend a fraction of that money identifying and supporting families early on, then not only will it help them in dealing with the problems that they face, but it will save the tax payer a considerable sum in the long term.”
In Brighton and Hove, Green councillors said they would consider the government’s offer of funding, but argued that many of the proposals had already been put into place.
Ben Duncan, cabinet member for public protection, said: “It’s a gimmick.
“We are already doing a lot of this work.
"We didn’t have any problems in Brighton during the riots and that was partly because of the good work that is already going on.
“The majority of the funding for these plans will have to come from council coffers despite massive funding cuts from central government.”
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