Theresa May at Church on Sunday near her Maidenhead constituency
The loss of a life to knife crime is horrific. It is senseless, destructive and a tragedy for the families, friends and communities of the victims.
It is a terrible truth that, disproportionately, it is young people whose lives are being lost in this way.
This cannot be allowed to continue. We must and will use every tool and tactic at our disposal to deter young people from carrying knives.
We must treat the threat which knives pose to our society like a disease.
So this week we are bringing together experts from many different disciplines for a serious youth violence summit at 10 Downing Street.
The aim is to get people from right across society – not just politicians and police officers, but figures from education, healthcare and social work, religious and community leaders, youth workers and more – working side by side to spot young people at risk, flag their concerns, and make targeted interventions to steer them away from crime.
Rather than having a complex web of different agencies and organisations working independently on different parts of the problem, we want to see everyone working together in what has been called a public health approach.
Because youth violence is an issue that affects us all, and the only way to beat it is for us all to work together.
Not just dealing with the tragic aftermath when someone has been stabbed, but intervening long before.
Responding to the early signs of worrying behaviour or problems at home, or stopping teenagers being groomed by ruthless gangs, so that a young person doesn’t pick up a knife in the first place.
We are today launching a consultation into a legal duty that will underpin the multi-agency, public health approach, an approach that builds on work we are already doing to stop crime before it happens. For example, we’re putting an extra £100million into law enforcement in the worst-affected areas, getting more police on the frontline and setting up Violence Reduction Units. And our new £200million Youth Endowment Fund will provide long-term investment for programmes that steer young people away from becoming involved in violent crime or reoffending.
This approach is not making excuses for criminals. Responsibility for knife crime lies with the perpetrators, and anyone even considering arming themselves with a blade should be under no illusions: if you carry a knife you will be caught, and you will be punished.
The police are already catching and prosecuting more people who carry a knife – and the courts are sending more of those convicted to prison for longer.
Sajid Javid with Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner Steve House during a visit to Angel underground station on Thursday to announce plans to allow more police officers enhanced stop and search powers
Yesterday, we announced that we will be piloting changes to stop and search, which will initially apply in areas particularly affected by violent crime: London, the West Midlands, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, South Wales and Greater Manchester.
Our new Offensive Weapons Bill will make it harder for criminals to arm themselves. And almost £1billion of extra police funding is being made available this year, so that local forces have the resources they need.
But while strong, effective law enforcement has an obvious and vital role to play, we cannot try to simply arrest our way out of this situation, dealing with people only after they have broken the law.
After all, were it an infectious disease killing our children, Mail readers would not expect the authorities to just focus on treating the symptoms – you would rightly demand that we also do everything possible to prevent people getting ill at all. The families of those who have lost loved ones – many of whom will be at the summit today – deserve no less.
Of course, nothing we say or do this week will bring back the children who were so cruelly taken from them.
But we can promise that we will do whatever it takes to confront and defeat the scourge of youth violence.
And that we will do everything in our power to stop more families suffering as they have suffered.
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