The pair put aside their party rivalries last week to launch a joint report, Early Intervention: Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens. It argued for resources to be shifted from tackling the symptoms of family breakdown to the causes.
Allen revealed they have dates to meet Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, when they will call on them to “produce similar words” to spell out their manifesto commitment.
Speaking at a Labour fringe event hosted by the National Academy of Parenting Practitioners, Allen said they wanted the party leaders to pledge, that if in government, they would commission a research programme on childhood development and make early intervention a theme of the next three-year comprehensive spending review.
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