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NYA focuses on safety concerns

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The National Youth Agency (NYA) will lead a series of safety focus groups in youth clubs during the next four months after a young man in Liverpool became the latest teenage victim of knife crime last month.

Sixteen-year-old Joey Lappin and his friends were chased by a local gang outside the Shrewsbury House Youth Club in Everton, Liverpool, before he was fatally stabbed in the chest on 21 October.

The youth agency plans to run focus groups across England before producing two documents in March offering safety advice to young people and youth work managers.

An NYA spokesman said: "It's about finding out what can help young people feel safe so that they can get to activities and feel confident doing them."

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