Today the Early Intervention Foundation launched our early years report ‘Getting it right for families’ which reviews different ways of working and promising practice in local areas.

The 20 Pioneering Places we are working with told us that although there is a lot of emerging good work, current approaches are not delivering the life changing outcomes we all want for children - and at worst reinforce inequalities.

Organising services more coherently really matters for families who don’t want to have to repeat their story endlessly and who expect practitioners to share information and as a result plan their support and care more effectively.

The report identifies what is achievable when there is a commitment from strategic leaders, commissioners and practitioners to improve outcomes for children through integration. This involves a real change in culture and behaviours of staff across the early years that puts families and children front and centre of all they do ahead of professional and organisational self-interest. It’s about doing things differently on the ground and not simply ‘restructuring’.