Speaking at the party’s annual conference in Liverpool today (10 October), shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper revealed details of a 10-year cross-government programme including the creation of 90 youth hubs across England.
The hubs would bring together “mental health and youth workers to tackle the crisis in youth mental health, to give teenagers the best start in life and to stop the knife crime that is killing our children”, Cooper told delegates, highlighting a 70 per cent increase in knife crime in England over the last eight years.
“A generation is being failed, we must not fail them anymore,” she said, “25 years ago I was one of the Labour ministers responsible for Sure Start – for bringing together communities and services to help families with the very youngest children.
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