> A society where no young person feels that crime is their only option. This crime can become violent. Knife crime offences resulting in injury have increased by 22% in the last year, and 85% of violent offenders are aged between 16 and 29<p>I think they're saying that their workforce will include such violent offenders. Good for them. Probably most of these people need another chance and are worthy of it.<p>But I can't say I'd be comfortable calling them to my home. My father once hired a youth offender to do yardwork. He worked for him for several months. About a year later he came to the house with a girlfriend, robbed the occupants, and murdered two of them. They were the family I sold the house to after my father died.<p>Maybe my bias against violent offenders is bigotry. Surely this was a rare case. It isn't very fair to generalize. Yet I do fear them, and if I used this service I'd make an effort not to let them know where I live. It seems likely that many other people feel this way. That gives Cracked It a particularly tough hill to climb for a startup. I wish them well.
These guys also do popups - eg they come to your office once a month and set up in the canteen. The feedback I’ve heard is really good.<p>A similar business locally working with ex-offenders is redemption roasters (coffee).<p>Another really good example of how this can be successful helping people is Timpson’s.
This looks really neat, but it seems like a really bad time to be in "workplace" repair when so many are working from home due to a pandemic. I just found out I'll be stuck at home until at least 2021.