Are Child Welfare Intervention Rates Higher or Lower in Areas Targeted for Enhanced Early Years Services?

Flying Start is an enhanced early years programme in Wales which targeted at areas where a high proportion of households with children are recipients income-related benefits or tax credits. Child protection interventions known to be concentrated more deprived areas. could have the effect reducing risk or, conversely, it result coming attention social services. Administrative data were used identify public care and on child registers 31 March 2015 lower super output covered by welfare intervention rates examined, comparison was made between within deprivation quintiles operating not. In services provided, higher than they not, after controlling for multiple deprivation. Further work needed establish why what there might longer term. ‘Child areas… not’ Key Practitioner Messages ‘social gradient’ local authorities intervene placing statutory making them subject procedures. For each increase relative deprivation, corresponding rates. area-level The link poverty needs clearly acknowledged process.