The deaths of four young Londoners from separate knife attacks over the new year period has prompted a renewed focus on the most effective approach to reduce the capital's rising knife-related crime rate.
Debate has centred on whether the rise is linked to a recent reduction in the use of the controversial police tactic of stop and search, and whether this needs to be reversed, or whether a public health approach to tackling knife crime needs to be adopted.
Latest NHS Digital figures show knife-related injuries of children and young people aged 18 and under have risen by around 40 per cent nationally in the past five years. In London, 350 injuries were recorded in 2016/17, a 25 per cent rise on the 280 injuries recorded in 2012/13 (see graphics).
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