RAISING

THE

NATION

How to Build a Better Future For Our Children (And Everyone Else) // By Paul Lindley

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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An Investors in Children and Young People business award scheme

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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