Kim Bromley-Derry told CYP Now that the government's early intervention report, designed to provide guidance for children's trusts, only serves as a conversation starter.
"It is a discussion document rather than statutory guidance," he said. "It is making sure it is on everybody's agenda, but I think the real work starts now."
Bromley-Derry said it was now essential for trusts and government to provide evidence of what forms of early intervention and prevention work the best — something that he said should have been done in the past.
"Lots of places do this work, but the evidence that it makes a difference is very weak. There is a deficit of research in this area. We should have been doing it for the last 20 years, but we haven't. This is giving us a platform to get on with it."
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