Member

The noble Lord, Lord Farmer, and the noble Baroness, Lady Bennett, also raised the question of how we can ensure that we are not only developing services but achieving sustainable system change through the rollout. We believe that the approach that we are taking will enable those changes to be fully embedded so that earlier intervention becomes the mainstream part of provision that it needs to be. In the Families First Partnership Programme Guide, we have encouraged local authorities to take a whole-system approach to reforms, working closely with children and families to redesign services, from universal settings such as family hubs through to social care interventions.