The government has allocated £350,000 to the expansion of the ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ pilot across the Merseyside area. The programme, established in January 2022, aims to reduce firearms and knife offences through delivering preventative programmes to more than 2000 young people and divert them away from violence.
An additional £150,000 has been put towards providing trauma-informed support in local schools and mental health provisions for people affected by a string of shootings which left nine people dead including nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel.
Home Secretary, Priti Patel, said: “The impact on the wider community is immense, which is why we are providing funding for specialist trauma and mental health support for those who need it, as well as expanding the ‘Clear, Hold, Build’ pilot to disrupt Merseyside’s corrosive and deadly organised crime groups.
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