Early intervention is ‘critical,’ a minister has conceded as the Government comes under pressure to publish its delayed plan for implementing the recommendations of the latest children’s social care review.
Speaking in the House of Lords yesterday, minister Baroness Barran said: ‘The shift in the balance from late-stage crisis intervention to preventative, earlier intervention makes moral, human and emotional sense, but it also makes economic sense.’
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