The next government should strike a revolutionary new deal between Whitehall and local service providers to ensure early action helps reduce social problems over the next Parliament, a charity chief has argued.
Writing in a report for the Early Action Task Force, Dan Corry, chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital, said early action had to work ‘both ways', arguing ‘Whitehall must be bolder and more transparent' with long-term planning, while providers ‘must call time on their more unrealistic and poorly-evidenced claims about what they can achieve'.