At my first advice surgery as a newly elected MP for my tough Nottingham North constituency, a young mum with her baby came in and asked me for help to sort out her housing and benefits problems. Seventeen years later another young mum came to my surgery holding her new baby and asked for exactly the same help. The young mum was the baby I had seen just 17 years before.
Breaking the intergenerational cycle of deprivation and dysfunction through early intervention became the driving force of my work as an MP. In Nottingham we set up the first “Early Intervention City” scraping money together to bring in programmes to help babies, children and young people develop the social and emotional skills to create the virtuous cycle so they in turn could become good parents.
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