The Backing the Future report, published by Action for Children and the New Economics Foundation, has for the first time calculated the cost of failing to invest in services that prevent problems such as crime and obesity.
Researchers used a detailed economic model to find out how investing in early intervention work could save the government money while improving the lives of children and families.
Lead author Jody Aked said: "Through these calculations we can see that early intervention will make us more money than we would have to invest.
"But not only are we saving money, through our case studies we have tried to capture the benefits early intervention can make to individuals such as children and parents and also to communities."
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