NorPIP Conference Speaker Iain Duncan Smith: Invest in Tackling Causes of Social Breakdown

April 19, 2012 - PRLog -- Iain Duncan Smith has said this week that £25billion is being spent on the consequences of social breakdown and just a “pittance” on tackling the causes.

He will propose a switch in spending towards early intervention and has said the Department for Education is looking to form an Early Intervention Foundation which will be funded via a partnership between the private and public sectors.

Iain Duncan Smith’s social justice strategy paper suggests "the growth of social investment could aid social cohesion, connect successful financiers and businesses with difficult communities and create a vested interest in delivering real and lasting improvements".

Early Intervention Better than Tax Credits

The government's idea that early intervention and stable, caring families are more likely to be of benefit than tax credits when it comes to addressing poverty and its root causes is addressed within the paper. "If you think [about] the kind of money that has been transferred in the last four or five years, in things like tax credits, you have to ask the question – to what degree did we achieve what we were after?” said Mr Duncan Smith.

Iain Duncan Smith to Deliver Keynote Address at NorPIP Conference

Iain Duncan Smith is the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and the Chairman of the Social Justice Policy Group. He will deliver the keynote address at the much anticipated NorPIP conference on 18th May, “The Social Consequences of Poor Infant Attachment: Two is Too Late”.

The speaker panel features Professor of Neuroscience Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE; Camila Batmanghelidjh, regular media commentator and founder of two charities; Psychologist Dr Michael Galbraith; attachment therapist Dr Amanda Jones; George Hosking, founder of children's charity The Wave Trust and NorPIP founder Andrea Leadsom MP.

NorPIP (the Northamptonshire Parent Infant Partnership) invites everyone involved in working with families and children, interested journalists, writers and political commentators, decision makers and policy analysts to the conference in Towcester. For more information and tickets visit http://www.norpipconference.org.uk.

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The Northamptonshire Parent-Infant Partnership (NorPIP) is a charitable organisation offering attachment enhancing therapeutic help & support for parents from when they first discover they are pregnant to when baby reaches 2. http://www.NORPIP.org.uk