The call from Nacro comes after a report claimed that the government's response to last summer's riots has resulted in “increasing violence” among gangs.
The report by think-tank Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) said moves to arrest hundreds of gang members in the wake of last year’s riots led to “an increase in violence, chaos and anarchy” because younger inexperienced gang members were left to fill the resulting “power vacuum”.
Nacro argued that a greater emphasis on early intervention with younger children and young people is required to tackle the issue.
Graham Beech, strategic development director at Nacro, said: “What these findings tells us is that by the time a young person gets stuck in a gang it’s all the more difficult to get out.
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