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    Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds
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    Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds

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    2. Both-Mud-4362 on

      It is hardly surprising that if a government invests in it’s people right from gestation that ultimately they save money.

      I imagine these centres have helped parents feel ready for their child, care for their child, find appropriate care for the child so they can work, reduced illnesses causing health visits to hospital, because the parents have somewhere to get advice and feel confident taking care of their child at home etc etc.

      It’s just more proof that if you care for people who are in poverty or are vulnerable it ultimately costs less to the country. And the article and paper don’t even cover people being about to go back to work and earn and pay taxes in the equations.

    3. Wolf_Cola_91 on

      It’s typical to get multiple £ of benefits for every £1 spent by government. 

      Transport, education, some tax cuts and even military spending can also generate multiple £ of benefits for every £ spent. 

      It’s worth adding this context as the Guardian won’t. 

      (For example, the winter fuel payment would generate very low returns by this metric. But this paper would omit that context)  

    4. NeoCorporation on

      I understand these centres were dismantled purely based on ideology. Can’t have poor people getting help even if it saves rich people money.

    5. scrapheaper_ on

      ‘think of the children’ is such a meme but frankly I’m sick of the way pensioners get so much money spent on them when stuff like this is true.

    6. acidkrn0 on

      Almost wish there was a kind of single policy political party that just focused on anything that saves more than it spends