weeks.
The Early Intervention Foundation published Spending on Late Intervention: how we can do better for less, which said that £17bn a year is spent on picking up the pieces from damaging social problems. Meanwhile, the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Conception to Age 2 cited a figure of £23bn spent on the consequences of failing to deal with perinatal mental health and child maltreatment in the first '1001 critical days'. The Lords Affordable Childcare Committee called for a review of early years funding in its report, and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on A Fit and Healthy Childhood has just produced an extremely comprehensive report, with recommendations for every aspect of young children's lives (see News, pages 4-5).
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