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Tue, Jul 15, 2008
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I generally avoid it.
One of the nice things about leaving the country is that it's so easy to not stay in touch with the headlines.
Why?
Well, for example, one news story I didn't miss. The government has decided to invest £100 million to cut down on crimes caused by young offenders.
So far so good.
Then you get to this bit: "families with children at risk of future high-rate offending will be reached through additional support which will ensure that problems are tackled early before difficulties spiral out of control"
And if you brave the 1MB download of the PDF, you get to see this graph, which tells you what the risk factors they'll be using to assess the likelyhood of future offending:
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So, in order, we see that:
They're gonna need a lot more than £100 million.
If I were paying any tax in Britain right now, I'd be rather unhappy about the way it was being spent...
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