Labour MP Graham Allen speaks of the need for more efforts around early intervention to save the government money, as evidenced by work by the Social Research Unit and others.

Two articles featured in the latest edition of the Journal of Children’s Services highlight the complexity of measuring what services children and families receive.

The developers of a US drug prevention programme who invested heavily in media advertising – and have used it to trumpet their own success – have been accused of misrepresenting evaluation data.

A attempt to replicate a programme credited with cutting the New York teenage pregnancy rate has failed a UK trial.

We have long experience of communicating evidence and ideas to people who are in a position to support the healthy development of children. But there is still a tendency on the part of governments, communities, schools and families alike to neglect effective methods or else to overlook them altogether.

Two contrasting projects figure prominently in our dissemination portfolio. Prevention Action is a daily newspaper published online. Stories from around the world cover breakthroughs in prevention science and its international application.

We have long experience of communicating evidence and ideas to people who are in a position to aid the healthy development of children. But there is still a tendency on the part of governments, communities, schools and families alike to neglect effective methods or else to overlook them altogether.

The developers of The Incredible Years Dinosaur curriculum are arguing for more research to establish how programs for dealing with one set of developmental problems can be tailored to the needs of children suffering from several disorders at the same time – without compromising the core elements.