Keynote speaker Graham Allen MP addressed guests and winners from across the country.
"We know times are tough and there is less money around." he said. "But whether it is for the 120,000 so-called dysfunctional families or people caught in a summer of discontent, it is a vocation and you have got to do it. We can all sit here and complain or we can get stuck in, which is what you are doing and what the winners here tonight have done."
Allen also reasserted his call for the Chancellor to choose early intervention as the theme of the next comprehensive spending review.
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