Each set of authors laments the continued cuts in preventative and early help services; they highlight the continued rise in the numbers of children in care and the consequent increased costs; and they rail against the stupidity of a policy process that cannot agree to invest now in order to secure savings in the longer term.
The recent Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) report suggests a 25-year plan. It proposes a new national panel of experts (which I thought the EIF was already funded to be). It calls for a cross-government ministerial group (just like we had under Every Child Matters). And it calls for more funding to research which services are most effective, and for rolling out those models.
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