Save families and cash

AT a conservative estimate, family breakdown costs Britain almost £50billion a year. That’s not to mention the price paid in educational under-achievement, mental illness and countless other social ills.

This paper therefore warmly supports Iain Duncan Smith’s campaign to save a £70million marriage counselling scheme from Chancellor Philip Hammond’s axe.

Indeed, every £1 spent on counselling is reckoned to save the state more than £11. Shouldn’t ‘Spreadsheet Phil’, of all people, understand that cutting support for keeping parents together is the cruellest and most foolish of false economies?