Early Intervention: changing the late intervention culture ADAMS ROOM.

Early Intervention:

changing the late intervention culture

ADAMS ROOM

Graham Allen MPChair of the Early Intervention Foundation

Early Intervention:changing the late intervention culture

Graham Allen MP

Or ig ina tor o f Not t i ngham as ‘Ear l y I n te rven t i on C i t y. ’

Co -au thor w i th I a in Duncan Smi th MP o f ‘Ear l y I n te rven t i on : Good Paren t s , Grea t K ids , Be t te r C i t i zens . ’

Author o f i ndependen t r epor t s t o HMG ‘ Ear l y I n te rven t i on : The Nex t S teps ’ and ‘ Ear l y I n te rven t i on : Smar t I nves tment , Mass i ve

Sav ings . ’

Founder and Cha i r o f the Ear l y I n te rven t i on Foundat i on

Early Intervention: changing the late intervention culture

The Intergenerational Cycle

Sharon with baby Tracey, 1987

Tracey with Kate, 2003

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Bedrock

The aim of Early Intervention is to build social and emotional bedrock in every baby, child and young person.

Develop Social (not anti-social) Behaviour

Empathy the single greatest inhibitor of propensity to violence

Established early by observation of parental reaction

Attunement: parent and child emotionally in tune with each other

Babies show empathy by one year old. Not all develop this

“All rapport, the root of caring, stems from the capacity for empathy”

Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

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Average number of words heard by child at age of

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Stimulus e.g. Parent’s Speech and Child’s vocabulary

By 3 years of age children have heard in:- poorer families: 200,000 discouragements / 75,000 encouragements- professional families: 80,000 discouragements / 500,000 encouragements(Hart B, Risley T. Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of of young american children. Baltimore:Paul H Brookes Publishing: 1995)

Over half of nursery-aged children living in areas of disadvantage have language delay (Lock A, Ginsborg J, Peers I, (2002) development and Disadvantage: Implications for early years. International journal of Child Learning and development 27(1)

(Hart B, Risley T. Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of of young american children. Baltimore: Paul H Brookes Publishing: 1995))

Inequality in Early Cognitive Development of British Children in the 1970 Cohort, 22 months

to 10 years

Gang Boss or Brain Surgeon?

“The best time to influence the character of a child is 100 years before they are born.”W.R. Inge

Policy Crossroads

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Massive public policy consequences as High Risk Children Rise From 10% to 1 in 4 Over Future Generations

Percentage High Risk

Bruce Perry – Director of the Child Trauma Institute in Houston

Nottingham Early Intervention City – The Virtuous Circle

Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens

1st Report to HMG

2nd Report to HMG

Recent Developments in Neuroscience…

Bedrock

The aim of Early Intervention is to build social and emotional bedrock in every baby, child and young person.

The Way Forward – All Parties

‘Early Intervention to reduce the risks of passing disadvantage from generation to generation is a long-term project. It requires not just “patient capital” but patient politics – including the commitment of all parties to realise the vision of an approach where we consistently help early enough in life to prevent problems in the first place.’Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP

‘.... convincingly argues the economic, fiscal and moral case for switching public spending from dealing with the causes of social failure towards investing in programmes that prevent that failure in the first place, and provides some practical steps to help government make this transition.’Rt Hon David Cameron MP

‘A call for action – the action needed to ensure that every child in Britain can realise their full potential.’

Rt Hon Nick Clegg MP

Early Intervention Foundation

The Early Intervention Foundation

Key Roles: Assess, Advise and Advocate

1. Assess and validate evidence-based programmes and practises in the early intervention field, to establish a rigorous, independent evidence base for the UK.Be the go-to “What Works”centre for EI

2. Provide high quality advice and guidance to councils, private capital, philanthropy and third sector to take Early Intervention to scale across England. Start with 20 Early Intervention Places.

3. A strong voice to advocate early intervention,change the Late Intervention culture,speak up for the localities at the highest levels.

Phase 2 – Use strong evidence and good practise to help evolve a new market of social investment

The EIF Trustees

Prof Sir Michael Marmot - Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at UCL

Duncan Selbie - Chief Executive Designate of Public Health England Honor Rhodes OBE - Director of Projects and Strategic Development at The

Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships Ray Shostak CBE - Former head of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit in

No.10 Jean Gross CBE - Former Communication Champion for HM Government on

children. Mark Florman - Special advisor finance – former CEO of The British Private

Equity and Venture Capital Association Irene Curtis – Special advisor policy - Chief Superintendent, President Elect

of Politics Superintendents'’ Association Martyn Jones - Group Corporate Services Director of Morrison Supermarkets

Plc Cllr David Simmonds - Chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People

Board Anne Longfield –Chief Executive 4 Children. Christine Davies CBE – Former Director, C4EO

The EIF Organisation

The EIF became an independent charity on July 4th 2013. It employs 12 staff and has an annual running costs of £1.1 million.

The staff team includes the Chief Executive Carey Oppenheim, the Director of Implementation Donna Molloy, the Director of Evidence Professor Leon Feinstein, early intervention advisers, and evidence analysts.

Start-up funding is in place for the first two years, during which we are already building a £20million endowment to meet most of the EIF running costs in perpetuity.

The EIF Evidence Panel

Professor Kathy Sylva (University of Oxford)Professor David Farrington (University of

Cambridge)Professor Leon Feinstein (London School of

Economics)Professor Stephen Scott (Kings College, London)Professor Gordon Harold (University of Leicester)Professor Anne Phoenix (Thomas Coram

Research Unit)Professor Bren Neale (University of Leeds)Helen Goody, Head of Evidence (C4EO)

Early Intervention Foundation Consortium

The Foundation is supported and backed by a powerful consortium of more than 40 organisations including national children’s charities, think tanks, research institutions, philanthropic institutions, private businesses and banks.

Having established the EIF, this group now constitutes its Advisory Council.

Next steps for Early Intervention

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Early Intervention:

changing the late intervention culture