The Entrepreneur behind Yo Sushi, Simon Woodroffe, has said that children must be exposed to more danger to help them to cope with the daily risk-taking required in the modern business world, and the  “safety-first” culture in schools is robbing Britain of the next generation of entrepreneurs just when the country needs them most. He said that he was in despair when he heard that schools were no longer taking pupils canoeing or camping in case they injured themselves.  “My greatest fear is our children will grow up expecting to be looked after their whole lives, and expect corporate reasonableness for their entire working life. There would be no way we could compete with India and China with that attitude.” Woodroffe, 56, is patron of the Go4It awards for schools that encourage sensible risktaking and rivalry among pupils, in response to concerns of employers over the “cotton-wool kids” culture. At last year’s Go4It awards one of the winning schools was not allowed to attend because the locals authority deemed the journey to London too risky for the pupils. I am not making that up!

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