The Home Secretary will be under pressure to secure funding to tackle the root causes of knife crime
“Rest in peace, little angels,” read the card on the sunflowers left in Southport on Tuesday morning in tribute to the pre-teen Taylor Swift fans who became the latest victims of Britain’s wave of, the lump-in-throat horror was swiftly hardening into local anger. As the flowers wither in Lancashire’s hot summer sun, the political questions began.
An individual is more likely to commit an offence if young, male and poor. Exposure to violence, being a victim themselves, alongside mental illness and drug addiction, add to the picture. Low educational attainment and exclusion from mainstream education are also risk factors. “Administration after administration has received reports about the problem but failed to invest enough resources to tackle it,” Houlder said. “All these recommendations and they haven’t followed through.”
Not including possession offences, this figure rose by more than a third to 49,489 a year by the tail-end of the Tory term in December last year. The Labour Party has described the policy, which it says would cost £100m a year, as a “key part” of its mission to halve knife crime and youth violence within a decade. It wants to create 90 youth hubs to bring together services for at-risk young people.The West Midlands, Cleveland and London have the highest rates in the country for hospital admissions caused by assault with a knife or sharp object.The little girls in Southport are the latest in a line of victims.
Unless Reeves borrows more, further savings will also need to be found against the backdrop of court backlogs, bulging prisons and real-terms cuts to police budgets.
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