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03 July 2008
Peer mentoring identified as a solution to knife crime
Article in ‘The Independent’ looks at ways of solving current problem
This news article states that the police, local government and youth charities need to combine to tackle the poverty of ambition that prevails in too many poor areas and states that there is a need to establish peer mentoring services. Local figures who have made a success of their lives need to be persuaded to return to talk about their experiences. Young people need to be given an alternative to the knife-carrying gang culture.
This opinion piece states that the Government’s response to the high number of young people killed by knives is simply going after the symptom, rather than the root cause. The pledge to give police scanners to search for concealed weapons and for courts to come down harder on those found carrying a knife will lead to locking up more children which is not the answer.
Although knife crime in general has remained stable over the past decade, the use of knives by young people has increased. The Youth Justice Board reported recently a 12 per cent increase in the number of teenagers carrying knives since 2002.
Read the full article: ‘Leading article: There are ways we can tackle knife crime’ (The Independent, 3 July 2008)
Find out more about peer mentoring and how MBF can support you in setting up a scheme
This opinion piece states that the Government’s response to the high number of young people killed by knives is simply going after the symptom, rather than the root cause. The pledge to give police scanners to search for concealed weapons and for courts to come down harder on those found carrying a knife will lead to locking up more children which is not the answer.
Although knife crime in general has remained stable over the past decade, the use of knives by young people has increased. The Youth Justice Board reported recently a 12 per cent increase in the number of teenagers carrying knives since 2002.
Read the full article: ‘Leading article: There are ways we can tackle knife crime’ (The Independent, 3 July 2008)
Find out more about peer mentoring and how MBF can support you in setting up a scheme
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