A mock Tudor house on a residential street in East Croydon is not the obvious setting for the headquarters of a charity dedicated to expanding some of the UK’s most pioneering early intervention programmes. But the Wave Trust likes to do things differently.
Although its chief executive was a senior adviser to Graham Allen’s early intervention review, and the Centre for Social Justice credits it with inspiring its families policy, the charity itself is relatively unknown. Set up by George Hosking in 1996, the trust’s stated ambition is to drive a 70 per cent reduction in child abuse and neglect in the UK by the year 2030.
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