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One hundred days for early action: time for government to put prevention first
- Author:
- COMMUNITY LINKS. Early Action Task Force
- Publisher:
- Community Links
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 78
- Place of publication:
- London
This collection of essays by expert commentators develops practical recommendations which a newly-elected government could adopt in their first 100 days in office to put an early action approach at the centre of their work, or risk the future of important public services. It argues that, while the government will face many challenges, in almost every area there should be the same strategic choice: prevent now or pay tomorrow. Early action will not only reduce the demand for public services it will also deliver greater wellbeing and fairness and promote growth and opportunity. Areas of intervention addressed include: parenting and children; mental health; and social security. (Edited publisher abstract)
Towards effective prevention: practical steps for the next Government
- Author:
- SLOCOCK Caroline
- Publisher:
- Community Links
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
This paper aims to brief policymakers on early action – intervening earlier at all points in people’s lives, not just in early childhood - to prevent costly problems from arising later. The paper sets out a framework for an early action strategy, which combines three key components: building support for early action goals, developing long term plans to deliver them and investing in early action. It suggests two overarching social goals, namely people living healthier, happier and independent lives, including in their advanced years and equal access to good mental and physical health, and economic and social opportunities. It advocates ten year social and capital investment plans, while identifying short termism as a barrier to early action and calls for better information on what is being spent to aid transparency, increased investment in early action, incentives to break down institutional silos that prevent effective action and encourage collaboration and integration and innovation, with more action at local level, to find better ways to address social problems and unlock people’s potential. The paper also explores what an early action strategy might look like in practice, focusing on older people as one example. (Edited publisher abstract)
The triple dividend: thriving lives: costing less: contributing more: the first report of the Early Action Taskforce
- Author:
- COMMUNITY LINKS
- Publisher:
- Community Links
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Government spending has been cut over the last year but the rhetoric from the top has been no less sympathetic to the preventative approach. The Early Action Task Force has said the conventional language of 'prevention' used around early action projects presupposes problems, victims and perpetrators, and called for the use of a new language of 'readiness' associated with assets and strengths. This report makes a number of recommendations to government, including ring-fencing spending on early-action projects; setting up an early-action fund centrally held by the Treasury; and creating a ‘minister for early action’. The report also calls on government to explore guarantees or insurances on social impact bonds to stimulate the public to invest. Meanwhile, charity funders are encouraged to consider the optimum point for intervention each time they fund, by developing a “one step sooner” mindset. The report also calls on funders to collaborate on developing a shared evidence base with consistent measurement of early-action projects. The report also recommends that new language around early action needs to be developed, saying the language of ‘prevention’ is pessimistic, reductive and discouraging, while the language of ‘readiness’ is motivating, optimistic and aspirational.