Charities: cash spent on poor will save £400m - [Sunday Herald] Scotland

Charities: cash spent on poor will save £400m - [Sunday Herald]: "Charities: cash spent on poor will save £400m

By Stephen Naysmith, Social Affairs Correspondent

LEADING charities are calling for a �visionary� investment to help drug users, ex-prisoners and the homeless find work � and which they claim would save £400 million over 10 years.
In a manifesto to be submitted to the Scottish Executive this week, the group argues that spending £20m a year on such people would pay dividends by taking them off welfare and reducing costs related to crime and imprisonment."