How hospital youth workers are helping to combat serious youth violence

Knife crime is at its highest level recorded in England and Wales, with a 16% increase in knife-related offences in the year to March 2018. Much of the recent spike in knife crime involves young people, writes Brendan King.

How hospital youth workers are helping to combat serious youth violence

Knife crime is at its highest level recorded in England and Wales, with a 16% increase in knife-related offences in the year to March 2018. Much of the recent spike in knife crime involves young people, writes Brendan King.

Youth violence is increasingly being portrayed as a public health issue – an infectious disease, spread by a person’s proximity to it.

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