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Last updated: 23 November 2008
Cabinet Office Ministers responsible for driving the Government's social exclusion policies will visit Nottingham today to see what Nottingham's public, charity and voluntary sectors are achieving on early intervention
Hilary Armstrong, Pat McFadden and Ed Miliband know that early intervention is crucial for tackling deep-rooted disadvantage and will be out and about seeing and experiencing this work at the front line.
They will visit a number of Nottingham-run schemes aimed at tackling social exclusion including voluntary sector organisations, social enterprise projects and local schools. Speaking of her visit today Hilary Armstrong said:
“We will be seeing for ourselves how frontline workers in Nottingham are identifying adults and children at risk before they become Nottingham's future problems. Early intervention is a life cycle approach, intervening in the early years but also supporting families and adults with multiple problems as early as possible to divert them from risk.
”No-one is too hard to reach and we don't believe that there is anyone who doesn't want a better future for themselves and their children in Nottingham. We're here today to see how we can best achieve this and what lessons we can take back.”
The visit to Nottingham comes hot on the heels of the Prime Minister's comments last week in which he encouraged the approach Nottingham is taking in its ambition to become the first ‘early intervention city’ in its fight against social exclusion.
All three Ministers will be visiting staff and pupils at Rosslyn Park Infants and Junior School involved in the SEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) programme, which teaches acceptable social behaviour to children.
Since 1997 the Government has made great progress improving the life chances and opportunities of the most disadvantaged and hard-to-reach in society. Since 1997, 1.6m children have been lifted out of poverty.
Yet despite this huge progress about 2.5% of every generation seem to be stuck in a lifetime of disadvantage. Their problems are multiple, entrenched and often passed down generations. But this Government believes it is possible to extend opportunity to the least advantaged so that they enjoy more of the choices, chances and opportunities that the rest of society takes for granted.