Something similar was initiated in relation to the Church in the 17th century: it was called root-and-branch reform.
Unfortunately, new growth, in terms of various branches of government policy, emerges from many quarters, with apparently little pruning or direction. Nowhere is this more apparent right now than around the broad concept of prevention. The recent announcement that children at risk may now be identified at birth and their families offered additional support takes prevention almost to its ultimate limits. It was, however, the Social Exclusion Unit, in its Policy Action Team 12 report on young people in March 2000, that first forcefully advanced the case for a greater commitment to early prevention measures.
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