Britain is in danger of abandoning a generation of boys to a life without hope with “destructive” consequences for the nation, leading campaigners have warned.
It is feared the UK will face more riots and even higher prison numbers if the country’s crisis of “lost boys” spirals further out of control.
There is alarm that Britain is storing up problems for the future if it turns a blind eye to boys’ educational failings and young men’s high suicide and imprisonment rates.
Former England rugby captain Lawrence Dallaglio called for society to stop treating boys and young men as the “lowest of the low”.
He is fed up seeing youths “on the employment scrapheap and filling up our prisons”.
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