The criticism emerged from a summit organised by a group of leading youth organisations, including The National Youth Agency and the Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers, to discuss how best to stop gun, gang and knife crime.
A report produced following the summit concluded that the government should give more thought on how to encourage fresh approaches to tackling gun and knife crime.
The organisations said new thinking on dealing with the problem is being undermined by the government's national performance indicators and inspection regimes.
The summit also agreed solutions to violent crime must take the views of young people and their families more seriously. "Participation with young people is often tokenistic," the report says. "Young people's voices need to be heard, especially those of the hardest-to-reach young people as they often know the solutions."
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