Addressing the false economy
The impact of the budget
cuts does not only cause suffering to children and families, it
also:
- Has a longterm impact on communities and society as a
whole
- Results in more children and families reaching crisis
point
- Has a long-term detrimental economic
effect
Vulnerable people are already paying the human cost of decisions
made in the first year since the spending review.
Continuing to pursue policies which disproportionately affect
the most vulnerable will result in increased costs to the
state.
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The cost of not intervening early...
Research we commissioned from the new economics foundation
(nef), Backing the Future, identified both
the financial savings and the benefits that investing in early
intervention would bring.
This social return on investment analysis found that:
- Every £1 invested annually in our early intervention
based services benefits society by between £7.60 and
£9.20
- Every £1 invested in our children's centres generates a
£4.60 social return
The cost of not providing intensive family support...
Intensive family support services are
working effectively to tackle social deprivation, anti-social
behaviour and neglect. If these life-changing services such as
these are cut across the UK, it will cost the UK economy
£1.3billion per year
Research we commissioned New Philanthropy Capital to
conduct showed that one family support service run by Action for
Children that works with over 40 vulnerable families:
- reduces the number of children going into care by more
than half
- saves the local authority more than £37,000 per year
for every child
The cost of not supporting disabled children, young people and
their families...
The short breaks and intensive
support we provide improve disabled children's and their
families' wellbeing
Independent research undertaken by nef consulting found that
total state savings of £173,988,440 could be made if short
breaks were provided to all the families with disabled children who
need them.
This would be achieved as a result of the decreased cost
to:
- longterm residential care from reductions in the number of
disabled children placed outside of the family home:
£135,008,061
- health service from reduction in parents', families' and
carers' stress: £17,610,108
- schools of educating siblings with behavioural and emotional
difficulties: £21,370,271
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