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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Good with money: Children ‘earning biggest cash payments for behaving well'
Children are finding that good behaviour really does pay off – with youngsters typically receiving the highest cash amounts into their accounts for this 'task' – according to data from a money app. GoHenry said that being good is the highest-earning task of 2025 so far, with youngsters being rewarded with £1.48 on average. Practising music was the next best-paying task, with an average payment of £1.33, followed by caring for pets, at £1.31. The most popular task for which children receive payouts is tidying their bedroom, with an average payment of £1.10. And while it can sometimes be left until the last minute, doing homework is the next most popular task that children receive payments for, with a typical payout of £1.28. The research also indicated that many children are doing their bit around the home, with helping around the house being the third most popular task to be given a cash incentive, with youngsters banking £1.14 typically. There were also signs of a small gender payment gap, with boys receiving £1.53 per week on average for completing tasks, compared with £1.50 for girls. However, girls typically receive more weekly pocket money than boys, at £9.94 on average during 2025 compared with £9.87 for boys. Holidays are the top savings pots so far this year, followed by birthdays, electronics, clothes and shopping, according to GoHenry's data. The analysis looked at the savings habits of young people aged six to 18 from January to mid-April this year. Louise Hill, founder and chief executive of GoHenry, said the figures indicate that children are 'thinking ahead, planning for experiences and building those crucial long-term saving habits that will help give them a head start in life'. She added: 'And, of course, it's brilliant that 'being good' is literally paying off for them – a fun and effective way to learn about rewards.' Here are the top five highest-paid tasks for children and teenagers in 2025 so far, according to GoHenry's data, with the average cash amount paid: 1. Being good £1.48 2. Practising music, £1.33 3. Caring for pets, £1.31 4. Doing homework, £1.28 5. Brushing teeth, £1.20 Here are the most common tasks for children and teenagers in 2025 so far, according to GoHenry's data, with the average cash amount paid: 1 Tidying bedroom, £1.10 2. Doing homework, £1.28 3. Helping around the house, £1.14 4. Brushing teeth, £1.20 5. Caring for pets, £1.31 And here are the average weekly pocket money amounts across Britain in 2025 so far, according to GoHenry's data (there were some payments where the region was not known and these averaged £10.41): East Midlands, £9.48 East of England, £8.46 London, £9.62 North East, £8.81 North West, £9.69 Scotland, £10.73 South East, £12.80 South West, £8.76 Wales, £8.89 West Midlands, £9.91 Yorkshire and the Humber, £8.93 Here are weekly average task earnings by children and teenagers across Britain in 2025 so far, according to GoHenry (the average payment where the region was not known was £1.36): East Midlands, £1.53 East of England, £1.47 London, £1.60 North East, £1.49 North West, £1.54 Scotland, £1.52 South East, £1.64 South West, £1.44 Wales, £1.46 West Midlands, £1.54 Yorkshire and the Humber, £1.38
Daily Mail
22-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Most dangerous criminals in the UK being given pets behind bars, including budgies and tortoises
The most dangerous criminals in the UK are being given pets behind bars - including budgies and tortoises. Three high security prisons have gifted animals to inmates as a reward for good behaviour, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed. One prisoner at Strangeways - now known as HMP Manchester and one of the UK's largest high security, Category A men's prisons - owns a tortoise. And two convicts at Yorkshire's HMP Full Sutton and HMP Wakefield respectively - maximum security facilities for some of the country's worst criminals - have a budgie. The latter is nicknamed Monster Mansion for the infamous inmates incarcerated there over the years, like Ian Huntley, Charles Bronson and Levi Bellfield. Jeremy Bamber and Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins are currently behind bars at HMP Wakefield. An MoJ spokesperson said, according to The Sunday Mirror: 'Birds and other pets are provided under an incentive scheme which allows prison Governors to incentivise good behaviour and prevent violence against staff. 'Pets are not allowed in every prison establishment and this would be a local decision made by Governors in accordance with this incentives policy framework.' Offenders have previously been known to be allowed pets at lower security facilities - but these are the first known reports from higher security sites. The other five Category A prisons in the country - HMPs Belmarsh, Frankland, Whitemoor, Woodhill and Long Lartin - do not let prisoners keep animals. Governors can, according to guidance, let well-behaved inmates have 'one bird and one birdcage' if this is also compatible with a given prison's rules. Tortoises are not mentioned in the regulations around these creature comforts. Robert Maudsley, known as Hannibal the Cannibal, once asked for a budgie in his specially made solitary underground cell at HMP Wakefield. The 71-year-old quadruple serial killer wrote to prison governors: 'Why can't I have a budgie instead of the spiders and cockroaches I already have in here?' He earned his nickname in the press for rumours he ate part of one of his victims' brain - which were later disproven. Maudsley, often known as the country's most dangerous inmate, added of the proposed budgie in his letter: 'I promise to look after it and not eat it.' He spent 23 hours a day in his isolated glass cage for more than 40 years. The killer was incarcerated in it in 1983 after murdering three inmates during stints at Broadmoor Hospital and HMP Wakefield. But it is unlikely he owns the budgie documented at the Yorkshire facility. He was moved to HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire in April after a row with staff over his privileges. Maudsley was refusing food after guards took away personal items like his PlayStation, books and TV. A HM Prison Service spokesperson said: 'Prison pets are only allowed in specific situations and where approved by the Governor.'
