What it is that makes old people less likely to be lonely, men less likely to kill themselves, and girls and boys less likely to self-harm.
The support on offer must be value for money for the taxpayer – not to mention valuable for the parents and children who will actually use it.
Under the Coalition, progress was very slow. With a majority, it can be different. The Director of the Centre for Social Justice sums up this week’s ConHome series.
The Government has already doubled funding for relationship support, and help during early years is bound to be in the agenda.
In this fourth part of ConHome’s series, the Labour MP, co-author with Iain Duncan Smith and enthusiast for early intervention urges all parties to support the approach.
We will establish, where Councils are unable or unwilling to do so, Regional Adoption Agencies to match children with the right family for them more quickly.
Over the coming months we will take on a further 600 families
46 per cent of them have a mental health problem, 30 per cent are experiencing domestic violence.
Localism is partly an attitude of mind.
They are unable or unwilling to extend the same compassion to them as they do to the worst ones.
Contrary to sniping from Margaret Hodge the programme is on track
How does its record look when set against the aims that Iain Duncan Smith set out to the Centre for Social Justice?
This is surely the Government’s most underrated success story.
The massive extension of the Troubled Families programme is excellent news. Hitherto the target has been to turn around 120,00 families but this has been increased by another 400,000. An extra £200 million will be spent on this payments by results scheme. But talk of "spending" in this context is misleading. These are families that […]
Modernisation of the current arrangements for leases would bring the arrangements into line with modern housing choices.