Calls for a big increase in UK spending on preventative policies

Demos says Treasury should create separate spending category to help prioritise measures that prevent problems from arisingGovernment spending on preventative policie from vaccines to family hubs should be significantly increased and the Treasury should create an accounting category to monitor it, according to a report by the thinktank Demos.“What you measure really matters: that’s how things get prioritised,” said Anita Charlesworth, a co-author and the director of research at