This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Develop a National ‘prevent’ and intervention strategy for gang and knife crime
There are areas in this country where on a weekly or even daily basis our children are being involved in criminal gang activities or are the victims of knife crime.
This is a national crisis for our young people and will have a significant impact on their futures as well as our communities.
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The Government has previously implemented a child sexual exploitation strategy and the ‘prevent’ strategy. The numbers of our children involved in gangs is larger than both of those important concerns, yet NO NATIONAL RESPONSE! WHY NOT? As well as a prevention program in schools, we need a national intervention strategy as we did with ‘Channel’ from the ‘prevent’ strategy. Services to support children who are showing signs of or are in danger of being groomed by gang members.
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The Government published a nationwide serious violence strategy in April 2018 which included measures on knife crime and intervention. You can find it here:
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