Young people who had lived near a Sure Start centre between the age of 0 to 4-years-old were 20% less likely to have a custodial sentence, a think-tank has found.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) also discovered children living near the ‘one-stop-shops' for under 5s were 13% less likely to receive a criminal conviction.
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