UK government acts on early intervention

28 July 2010 |

Iain Duncan Smith has polished his social policy credentials by announcing a new review on early intervention.

Non-relative values

27 July 2010 |

The effects of good quality child care outside the nuclear family are still apparent in adolescence and the higher the quality of care, the more marked the benefits. But the effects on behaviour are more difficult to assess, suggests a recently published study in the United States.

Minding the life expectancy gap

15 July 2010 |

New research suggests efforts to narrow the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor in England have run aground. But is it too soon to judge or has the focus been too narrow?

A measure for measure

26 July 2010 |

How to judge what works in children’s services? Researchers have come up with a computer programme that creates a “silent” control group to replace the usual simplistic assumptions about how we measure mental health interventions.

Save the Children plans to give British children a FAST start

26 May 2010 |

Save the Children reasserts its focus on child poverty with a bold new program to get parents, teachers and children all working on the same team.

Fires, swamps, mosquitoes – too late for metaphors?

15 April 2010 |

A UK government department defines “early intervention” limply as a strategy for "tackling problems that have already emerged," and gives stalwart preventionist MP Graham Allen an opportunity to remind the House of Commons that as well as swatting mosquitoes, the electorate must have a proper program for draining the swamp.