The Department for Children, Schools and Families is developing a green paper on early intervention and prevention.
Due to be published in October or November, at the same time as a green paper on families, a source close to Children's Secretary Ed Balls says it is designed to help directors of children's services make the economic case for investing in early intervention.
Although still in its early stages, CYP Now understands from an expert helping to draw up the strategy that an initiative called Communities that Care (CtC) will feed into the green paper's development.
The initiative has influenced government policy before (see box). So what does the re-emergence of this concept reveal about how the Labour Party is gearing up for both the next general election and the tough financial climate?
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