Children and families are often reaching crisis point before being able to access support. Barnardo’s believes that effective family support services can achieve meaningful improvements in children and family's outcomes, as well as reduce the need for more extreme interventions, including the need for care proceedings, saving costs to the state in the longer term.
A new report by Barnardo’s found that for every £1 invested in our intensive family support service on the Isle of Wight, the saving in costs to the state is approximately £2.60.
A key test for the Government’s ‘levelling-up’ agenda must be whether it improves to outcomes for children and families. That is why Barnardo’s is calling on the Government to use the Comprehensive Spending Review to invest in family support by ensuring a family hub, providing hybrid support in-person and online, is available in every community.