A total of 282 lives taken by a knife. As a society, we should never accept those figures. This is supposed to be an age of seeing violence as a national health problem, yet the silence about what can be done to ensure this “production line” of victims and perpetrators stops is deafening.
I sat on the panel for The Commission for Young Lives. The subsequential report Hidden In Plain Sight highlights a multitude of areas where there are collective failings by services to adequately assess and address the problem of violence in all its forms. The report calls for radical change, which if taken seriously could transform the landscape for young people in terms of their life outcome trajectories.
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