‘In Holland we love children. In Scotland you tolerate children’

Today, 15,000 Scottish children are in the care of social services and one child in four is assessed as ‘vulnerable’ when they arrive at primary school. Alan Sinclair, founder and former chief executive of the Wise Group, has spent 10 years studying where we are going wrong. He has set out his analysis and a long-term plan to put Scotland on a better path in a new book, Right from the Start: Investing in Parents and Babies. In this exclusive extract he summarises his case.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16078218.__39_In_Holland_we_love_children__In_Scotland_you_tolerate_children__39_/