News Insight: The children's policy reviews at a glance

13 September 2010 5 mins read Janaki Mahadevan Early Years Education Health Social Care Youth Justice Youth Work

The coalition has launched a flurry of reviews on children and young people's policy. Janaki Mahadevan looks at their scope, timing and the figureheads behind each of them.

EARLY INTERVENTION - Graham Allen

In September 2008, MP for Nottingham North Graham Allen co-authored a report with now Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith on the merits of early intervention for the Centre for Social Justice. The report argued that successful early intervention requires cross-party support and a significant shift in culture towards a proactive rather than reactive approach to tackling social problems.

As chair of One Nottingham (the Local Strategic Partnership) from 2005 to 2009, Allen drove the vision of making Nottingham an "early intervention city".

Remit The review aims to look at how early intervention schemes can be expanded across the country and how they can be funded.

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