While funding for new initiatives is welcome, there are plenty of established projects the strategy should build on.
Redthread's Youth Violence Intervention Programme engages young knife victims in the first few hours of receiving treatment in hospital. The Divert project, run by the Metropolitan Police and Milestone Foundation, has been found to help young offenders that entered police custody go on to get jobs or an apprenticeship.
Both schemes engage young people at a "teachable moment" - when most likely to consider their behaviour.
While it is important to work with those already involved in violent crime, experts say greater effort and resources must be put into working with children before they get to that point (see analysis).
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