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  Social Enterprises are a really positive force in engaging the excluded and vulnerable. I am just back from a conference in Westminster which included many charities, police chief commissioners, and many others involved in reducing reoffending, including Lord Bradley who wrote a significant report into mental health issues and how they can impact on offenders. I also used to work for a NFP that used social enterprise to support re-entry to society. The opportunities they provide are limited only by imagination and funding, and the funding can be managed with imagination and hard graft!! Whatever we think of convicts, what we really want is for them not to do it again! That can't be achieved by simply being horrid to people and refusing to engage with them - the best way to stop people being criminal is by making sure there is something better on offer, and I don't mean benefits, I mean something that willl underpin self esteem, self support and rewards hard work. Social enterprises can do exactly that when they are well run and supported. If you know of any, please support them - it is on your interests aswell as the excluded and the vulnerable, and their families and circles of support.

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