Q Having lost one of our members a few years ago to knife crime we have worked hard to get a weapon free policy at our youth centre. But recently we have had to ban some young people for carrying knives. I thought we had got the message across. What can we do?
Is your policy regularly articulated and reviewed? While your young people will not have forgotten the loss of a peer, they may have forgotten the rationale behind a no weapons philosophy. Tensions run high, fear sets in and peer pressure is strong. Unless you check in with them you are unlikely understand what has triggered this new trend.
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