Andrew McCully, director for the supporting children and young people group at the Department for Children, Schools and Families, said children's trusts must look at supporting crime prevention work.
"We would like children's trusts to look even more at the ways in which they are able to bring prevention activity together," McCully said.
"One area left out of children's trusts' work is how children's services work as part of the crime prevention strategy. This is something that is often left to the crime and disorder reduction partnership.
"We want to ask whether or not this is effective and if some children's trusts could be more ambitious."
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