Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said the plan will focus on enforcement, punishment and prevention.
But Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has denied young people caught carrying knives will be made to visit stabbing victims in hospital as part of the plan, as widely reported yesterday.
She said she backed schemes which forced young people carrying knives to face up to the consequences of their actions, such as through workshops and discussions with health workers over the impact of knife crime.
But she said she had not proposed taking young people into hospital to see patients.
The action plan is expected to include a focus on parenting contracts and a threat of eviction if families do not control their children.
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