‘Scouts sent into riot hotspots by ministers: Hundreds of teams to help the disadvantaged’ Jill Sherman The Times August 25 2012 (sorry, no electronic version I can easily find)
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‘The traditionally middle-class, white youth clubs often found in leafy suburbs and shire counties but not in inner cities’ will be deployed in 400 new sites to ‘provide 10,000 more places for disadvantaged youths, including offenders, disruptive schoolchildren, children in care and the unemployed .. the cash for “uniformed” groups suggest ministers prefer more disciplined associations over less-established local services’
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That’d be a great Big Society paedo-initiative, statues to be erected for the scourge of Mafeking, inventor of the concentration camp, Lord Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell of Gillwell!
