Early Action Task Force

Towards Effective Prevention: Practical steps for the next Government

This paper briefs politicians on early action – intervening earlier at all points in people’s lives, not just in early childhood – to prevent costly problems from arising later. It brings together recommendations of the Early Action Task Force. The background to this work appears in the Task Force’s two earlier reports – The Triple Dividend and The Deciding Time.

The a group of third sector, business and public sector leaders working to build a society that prevents problems from occurring rather than one that, as now, copes with the consequences.

This publication is available as a free download at:

http://www.community-links.org/our-national-work/publications/towards-effective-prevention-practical-steps-for-the-next-government