The Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust will continue to be a fitting legacy to Stephen’s memory. It sets out how we will move forward and grow as a social business so that we can continue to make a real impact: Supporting young people to transform their lives, overcoming disadvantage and discrimination and into ambitious careers as professionals; Ensuring business can benefit from, and is more inclusive of, diverse talent throughout its management structures; Continuing to campaign for fairness and justice, ensuring the lessons from Stephen’s murder are acted on. Not enough has changed in the last 20 years. Social immobility, a widening poverty gap and racism still present almost insurmountable obstacles to large numbers of young people. This is compounded by an economy that is still recovering from the biggest recession in living memory. While a quarter of 18-24 year olds are unemployed nationally, that figure more than doubles to 56% of black men in the same age range that are unemployed. We have to act now to avoid the damaging waste and disregard of human talent.

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Wednesday, 13 August 2014

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