The series, in the docu-soap genre, aimed to show parents how to overcome common behavioural problems in their children, using a team of experts who observed and gave advice.
This was frequently achieved in scenes where the family was filmed in a communal activity, with the parents receiving advice from the attending professional via an ear piece.
In addition to its entertainment value, Little Angels gave viewers strategies to deal with common problems, and offered real help to the family being filmed.
Little Angels was the first in a series of reality television programmes to focus on parenting, with successors including The House of Tiny Tearaways.
[1] The show's experts, Tanya Byron,[2] Stephen Briers, Rachel Morris and Laverne Antrobus, became household names.