Graham Allen
Home Affairs Select Committee
2 February 2010
Select committees rarely take evidence from MPs, however today at twelve o'clock both Graham Allen MP and Iain Duncan Smith MP will give evidence on reducing crime though early intervention to the Home Affairs Select Committee ( The Wilson room, Portcullis House)
Graham and Iain have worked together on this topic for several years, co-authoring "Early Intervention; good parents, great kids, better citezens".They have met all three party leaders on a non-partisan basis to develop a political consensus around intervening with babies, children and young people to ensure they develop the social and emotional bedrock to break the intergenerational cycle which leads to low educational attainment, low work aspiration, lifetimes on benefits and antisocial, criminal behaviour and the perpetuation of poor parenting.
"Early intervention is a cheaper and much more effective way of tackling social problems then massively expensive remedial work sometimes sixteen years after the problems become established and intractable" Graham Allen said. "This is a new public sector economic model of intervening more cheaply and effectively rather than feeding the insatiable public leviathans of late intervention. It will have large positive impacts upon the public deficit from whichever parties adopt it as their philosophy.
Iain and Graham are joined by Alan Given, the chief executive of the Crime and Drug Partnership, who will demonstrate how Nottingham has been transformed from a crime capital to one of the highest achievers in reducing crime on a sustainable basis. For further information, call Graham Allen at 07802210179.
