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Box 5.1: Early Intervention in Manchester
Manchester local authority and its partners have a strong prevention and early intervention
strategy, which includes a focus on investment in prevention and early intervention in the
following areas:
• A core universal ofer of highly evidence-based interventions that have been subjected to
longitudinal outcome evaluation and randomised control trials has been selected to work with
parents and children from birth to 5 years.
• Manchester has endeavoured to create a single care pathway for parents and children from
pregnancy onwards, to ensure that families do not slip through the net.
• It has established an assertive outreach model to complement the suite of evidence-based
parenting programmes and family support models, to ensure that there is better engagement
with potentially vulnerable families.
• Critically, Manchester ensures that practitioners delivering evidence-based interventions follow
treatment and programme model fdelity of the interventions, with strict evaluation and clinical
supervision in place. Any deviation from the original intervention model would jeopardise
any outcome impact and fnancial assumptions about savings that can be made by using
these interventions.
• It uses evidence-based approaches to identify and develop the most efective interventions to
support children and young people in developing the personal skills and emotional intelligence
needed to thrive in all circumstances.
• There is a Learning Transformation Programme to ensure that all learning settings provide
a broad educational experience which meets the needs of children and young people in
Manchester.
The strategy builds on some long-standing Early Intervention initiatives, such as the Children and
Parents Service (CAPS).
• CAPS is a multi-agency partnership between local health services, Early Years and Play, and
Family Action (formerly the Family Welfare Association).
• CAPS is jointly commissioned by CAMHS, Sure Start, Extended Schools, Pathfnder
(Department for Education), the Think Family Grant and the Area Based Grant.
• Partnership working has led to the successful provision of delivery plans, including core ofer
requirements on parenting support, and is in line with Manchester’s parenting strategy and
Think Family strategy.
• CAPS is committed to the delivery of evidence-based early interventions and has an excellent
track record for evidencing its efectiveness in improving child outcomes.