Sharon's story is one that MP Graham Allen uses to explain why early intervention is something he is determined to make a part of UK culture — and why an intergenerational cycle of deprivation must be broken.
Allen was appointed chair of the independent commission on early intervention in July this year, but he has a long history of working on the issue. His Nottingham North constituency labels itself "an early intervention city", where a range of projects have already proved successful.
As a Labour MP reporting to the Social Justice Cabinet Committee, who wants all political parties to endorse his final reports, Allen's passion to make early intervention successful overrides political allegiances. "The only reason to do this - to stick my neck out as a Labour MP for the current government — is to say there's going to be some action," he says. "I don't want to publish a report that doesn't go anywhere."
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