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Interview: Enver Solomon, policy director, The Children's Society

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If asked to picture the sort of person who would be found in the upper echelons of a Christian charity, the agnostic son of a Muslim mother and Jewish father might not be the first person that comes to mind.

But despite admitting that he has never embraced religion, the values of The Children’s Society clearly resonate strongly with Enver Solomon’s social justice mantra.

On further inspection it is not too difficult to see why Solomon plies his trade at the charity, one that fosters the tenets of love, justice and forgiveness. Indeed, clues giving away his outlook are on open display in his north London home.

Pinned to a board in the kitchen – alongside pictures of his two daughters – is a copy of the poem Children Learn What They Live.

Starting each line with the word "if" and suggesting first the damaging consequences of raising children poorly, it then poses alternative benefits if the child is the recipient of encouraging attitudes.

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