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The recession has taken a grim toll on high street retail chains with family favourites such as JBB Sports, Peacocks and my own favourite, Jane Norman, either closing or slimming down.  But other retails outlets are thriving.  Payday lenders, pawnbrokers and betting shops have proliferated, in some areas changing the look and feel of the high street.

ACE stands for Adverse Childhood Experience and you are going to hear much more about it over the coming years. While there has been surprisingly little work on ACE so far in in the UK, the US Centre for Disease Control (CDC) and Kaiser Permanente have been studying ACE over the past 14 years and come to some remarkable conclusions.  ACE may radically change the way we think about public investment for the prevention of both chronic disease and crime prevention.