In August, Ivan Lewis, shadow secretary of state for international development and Dame Tessa Jowell, MP for Dulwich and West Norwood, launched a campaign calling for an integrated approach to early childhood development to be included within the Millennium Development Goals’ succeeding framework post 2015.
As part of the campaign, Dame Tessa started a petition, which so far has 2,265 signatures.
The Labour MPs believe that the current Millennium Development Goals, which range from halving extreme poverty and providing universal primary education all by 2015, do not do enough to support children during their earliest stages of life.
A post-2015 Development Agenda will replace the eight goals, agreed to by all the world’s countries, in two years’ time.
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