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The paper evaluates flagship initiatives from the previous administration, focusing on how ad hoc development affected parenting support and relationship support. It proposes an integrated framework by combining whole-family approaches from the Troubled Families Programme with the life course narrative of the Life Chances Strategy, enabling both universal and targeted elements.","Family Policy: an integrated approach?  \nDavid Marjoribanks* Relate  \nKeith Davies* Kingston University  \nAbstract  \nFollowing the result of the EU Referendum and the emergence of a new Prime Minister the direction of family policy in England remains to be clarified. The future of flagship initiatives of the previous administration such as the Troubled Families Programme and the Life Chances Strategy remain uncertain. Taking advantage of the hiatus to take stock, this article raises concerns regarding the effects of previous ad hoc family policy development with particular reference to parenting support and relationship support. Borrowing an emphasis on coherent, coordinated service provision and ‘whole-family’approaches from the Troubled Families Programme alongside the ‘life course’ narrative of the Life Chances Strategy, it is argued that these concepts offer the framework for amore integrated family policy including both universal and targeted elements.  \nKey words: life chances, life course, whole family, relationship support, parenting support.  \nIntroduction  \nPolicy addressing poverty, life chances and the family awaits a new direction in England following the result of the EU Referendum on the 23rd of June 2016 and the resignation of David Cameron the following day. Although the rhetoric of the Prime Minister Theresa May has reflected support for the ‘working class family’ and opposition to‘burning injustices’ such as racism and the limited life chances which poverty most often brings (May, 13th July 2016), detailed policy has yet to emerge. This is, therefore, an opportune moment to consider recent trends in policy and to look ahead.  \nThis article considers the ‘Life Chances Strategy’ (Cameron, 2016) of the Cameron administration and argues for a more integrated, coordinated form of policy development. It stresses the recognition and inclusion of all family types, defining the term family widely and inclusively whilst, at the same time, envisaging a spectrum of services, both targeted and universal, which any family might use and move on from as it responds to changes, crises and opportunities over time. It draws on two key concepts, both of which might contribute towards the formation of a more unified life chances policy. The first of these is the concept of the ‘life course,’ present in the nowsuspended Life Chances Strategy (LCS) and explored in the academic arena by writers  \nsuch as Green (2016) . The second is the ‘whole family’ concept (Morris et al. , 2008), central to the Troubled Families Programme (Davies , 2015) and its predecessors the Family Intervention Projects. Central to this concept is the understanding of a family, however configured, as an inter-related entity around which services should cohere (by contrast with a model whereby a plethora of agencies deal separately with individual family members without reference to either each other or to others in the family) . Using these concepts and focusing on the early years and, in particular, parenting support and relationship support, the article seeks to illustrate ways in which an evidencebased and integrated life chances strategy might be envisaged.  \nThe (late?)‘Life Chances Strategy ’  \nDavid Cameron had planned to launch of the Life Chances Strategy on 24th June 2016, immediately after the EU Referendum. Instead he resigned and the strategy entered a state of limbo. Despite this, the Life Chances Strategy, announced in a key speech earlier in the year (Cameron, 2016), represents a helpful point of departure fora consideration of integrated policy.  \nRhetorically ambitious, the Life Chances Strategy promised an ‘all-out attack on poverty’ and envisaged a role for government in improving equality of access to life chances albeit in the context of continued austerity and overall reductions in public expenditure. 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