Perry, senior fellow at the Child Trauma Academy in Texas, was invited to the UK by the founder of the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) Graham Allen, and is quick to extoll the virtues of the organisation, which marked its first anniversary last month.
"I'm here to talk to policy people, academics and not-for-profit organisations to facilitate the core message of the EIF, which is recognising the need for synergy between academics, politicians and policy makers, and practitioners," Perry says. "Getting these groups to respectfully engage is tough, but the EIF is doing it. Unless we can figure out how to do this more in our culture we're going to be very inefficient at problem solving."
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