Chapter: Well-being
A summer holiday manifesto
Laurence Guinness, CEO of The Childhood Trust
For most children, school holidays are times of happiness, freedom and adventure, a magical time when some of our happiest memories are made. But not for everyone. Some children anticipate the holidays with a sense of dread. Poverty turns school holida …
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Iqbal Wahhab OBE, Entrepreneur, philanthropist and restaurateur, and founder of The Cinnamon Club and Roast
It costs us £50,000 to prosecute someone and to place them in jail. In London it costs us a further £48,000 a year to keep one person locked up.[i] Around 68 per cent of young prison leavers re-offend within a year and are back in prison again,[ii] rec …
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