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MP Graham Allen calls for early years intervention
Only early intervention can break the "inter-generational cycle of dysfunction and under-achievement", it says.
Mr Allen's report highlights the impact of poor parenting and says too few parents-to-be understand how to build the social and emotional capability of a baby or small child.
All parents need to know how to "recognise and respond to a baby's cues, attune with infants and stimulate them from the very start, and how to foster empathy", it says.
The report quotes some American research that shows the early years are the greatest period of growth in the human brain.
This is why, Mr Allen argues, it is important to intervene in the early years, rather than later when the basic architecture, or wiring, of the brain is formed for life.
He highlights the Family Nurse Partnership, which has had a lot of success in the United States, and says it should be available to all vulnerable first-time mothers in the UK.
The programme sees specially trained nurses regularly visiting young, first-time mothers from pregnancy until their child is two, to promote attachment and positive parenting.
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Interview with Graham Allen MP
for Nottingham North
Confluence: You led an all party Parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka recently. Can you give us a broad brush picture of the current state of play in the peace process in that country as you observed it?
Graham Allen: We were pleased to see that most political parties are getting involved in the peace process and we did what little we could to tell everyone that they should participate by using our experience from Northern Ireland, where, however difficult it may be for those who have fought each other to know that the way forward is possible only when they all sit down together.
C : But given that the Government now in power has within it a substantialcomponent – namely the Marxist JVP, who are opposed to the peace talks, – how do you reconcile this reality with the perceptions you have just articulated?
G.A: We don’t anticipate having the ability to overcome such problems. It may be helpful for those in Sri Lanka to hear our perspective and that is all we offered. These things, of course, must be resolved by the parties in Sri Lanka, where we would hope that however difficult it is, and we understand from our experience in Northern Ireland, how difficult it is, that all the parties partic