| The Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP |
Iain Duncan Smith was born in Edinburgh and educated in Anglesey and Sandhurst before joining the Scots Guards in 1975.
As well as being the Member of Parliament for Chingford and Woodford Green, Iain was formerly a member of the Shadow Cabinet and was Conservative Party Leader for 2 years from September 2001.
His passionate interest in the preventive approach to resolving social problems also finds expression in his current role as Chairman of the Centre for Social Justice, a policy group independent of the Conservative Party. In 2008 he and the Labour MP for Nottingham North, Graham Allen, collaborated with WAVE to produce a booklet promoting a long-term joint party approach to prevention and early-years intervention to reduce violence, child maltreatment and other dysfunction. In his introduction to Early Intervention: Good Parents, Great Kids, Better Citizens, Iain says: ‘We need to intervene early and think in terms of prevention at the earliest point possible’.
Our vision is to create a world where every child is loved and cared for, and where every person is treated with respect. The focus of our work is to eliminate child abuse and violence.