During this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions, Graham Allen, early intervention champion and Labour MP for Nottingham North, called on the government to make "early intervention in the lives of babies, children and young people a theme for all departments in the next comprehensive spending review."
Cameron said: "That is a very sensible suggestion. I think that we can look at it in the context of the next spending round."
The Prime Minister added that early intervention was a focus of the Cabinet’s family committee, which he chairs.
Allen, who has produced two reports for the government on early intervention, said prioritising the issue in the next spending review was crucial to "reduce the massive costs of failure, including educational underachievement, 120,000 dysfunctional families, summers of discontent and many, many lifetimes wasted on benefits."
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