An evaluation of the initial programme led by Ecorys was leaked to the BBC in August 2016. The evaluation stated that the programme had made "no discernable impact" on unemployment, truancy or criminality in the treatment families. The BBC said that the report was leaked by a senior civil servant who felt that government officials had suppressed the report because of its negative evaluation. The Department for Communities and Local Government denied this, however. The Guardian also noted the scheme had been set up in the wake of the 2011 England riots and was due to cost 1.3 billion pounds by the end of the expanded programme. The Early Intervention Family called for DCLG to publish the report in full, but the Department replied that the evaluation work was not yet finished.