Without a significant shift in government policy, as well as funding for early identification of risk, the strategy to deal with violence - including knife crime - may be ineffective, the ADCS suggests.
The ADCS published its response to the Home Office's draft plans for a new legal duty to support a multi-agency approach to preventing and tackling serious violence - a consultation on which closed yesterday.
In it, the association acknowledges the high level of activity on the topic, including national summits, research commissioning and "different pots of funding launched by different government departments".
"However, how all these things fit together is not always clear nor the end goal we're all working towards," it adds.
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