It would be difficult to find anyone who would argue against the importance of early intervention across children and young people's services.
The idea of addressing social and personal issues early is endorsed by campaigners and politicians as absolutely worth striving for.
The key barrier to boosting early intervention services, however, is funding. In the current economic situation, none of the main parties will commit themselves to substantial investment.
So how likely is it that a series of policy recommendations in a report published this week by Action for Children will come to fruition?
Deprivation and Risk: the Case for Early Intervention is part of a series of reports being produced by the charity. It follows last September's Backing the Future report, which called for a sea change in the way services are delivered and focused on shifting investment from acute services to early intervention.
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