Member

The Government are introducing a huge set of changes to our system. We do not have enough evidence of how this will work in practice and there is not sufficient funding, or any visibility on funding, beyond next year to pay for this. To be crystal clear, we support the aspiration to expand early help and early intervention, and the aspiration that every child in every family who needs it should get support. However, we introduced the pathfinder approach for good reason: we needed to test it out in practice, listen to and follow the evidence, adjust course and identify the necessary long-term funding before national rollout.