Longfield accepts that the charity has taken on a thorny task at a critical time, not least because the coalition's austerity drive brings an end to a decade of extra resources for early intervention, including Sure Start.
But in interviews on the causes and effects of runaway population growth in Africa for a weekend article in The Times, many experts suggested one singularly effective intervention: make sure that girls to go to high school.
The PRIME intervention utilized SURE's pharmaceutical management information system forms and procedures.
These training sessions were led by KC and EW and were designed to identify any problems with the intervention, make sure the documentation was appropriate and also to ensure that there was a consistency in its implementation.
But it's the over-the-top assistance that sugarcoats the philanthropy: a heady cocktail of extravagant and extreme interventions that, sure enough, yield almost instant results.
Although local authority CYP services provide some parent group interventions through Sure Start Children's Centres and some are available through the voluntary sector, their availability is sporadic.
Some highly complex interventions, such as the Sure Start intervention to support families with young children in deprived communities, 8 may comprise a set of individually complex interventions.
The evidence base for two (12%) pathway interventions was "not sure," whereas the remaining 15 interventions were minimally based on one randomized study or good evidence.
As we put all the brakes on notions of inclusion and diversity and call it 'backward', this is a result, in my opinion, of government intervention in making sure that some of the barriers have been lifted.
In the early 1970s, when the Norwegian psychologist Dan Olweus created the anti-bullying program that remains the model for this kind of intervention, he made sure that it was used not only in the classroom, but also throughout the school, the community and the state.
