Speaking at a debate on early intervention at the Houses of Parliament today (14 December), Clay Yeager, who has worked on a range of successful early intervention schemes in the US including Nurse Family Partnerships, said that "too much money was being wasted" on programmes that have no evidence to show that they work. "In the US we used to fund a programme where we would take children to visit prisoners in jails. The hope was that the snarling inmates would put off the young people from committing crime. It sounded like a good idea but when research was carried out into the programme it made little difference to whether that juvenile committed a crime," he said.
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