The coming six months will be crucial in setting the course for children's services into the mid-2020s, says Jo Casebourne, chief executive of the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF). She says the upcoming Comprehensive Spending Review - due to take place in the autumn - comes at a time of heightened policy interest in the challenges facing vulnerable children and families, and growing recognition that there needs to be more emphasis and spending on early help services.
"The spending review is a real opportunity," she says. "It is an obvious vehicle to translate the upswell of interest into action."
The foundation, set up in 2013 by former Labour MP Graham Allen, gathers and shares latest knowledge on best practice in early help with policymakers and service providers, and Casebourne has spent many hours recently meeting senior civil servants and politicians to discuss the need for greater investment in prevention and the benefits it will reap.
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