The Guardian has been tracking the number of children and teens killed by knives in 2017, after discovering no national data was available. Knife crime is an epidemic. | Sarah Jones Read moreSarah Jones, the Labour MP for Croydon Central and chair of the all-party parliamentary group on knife crime, said: “Today’s figures show knife possession offences continue to grow at a worrying rate. “I continue to press the government to treat knife crime as a public health crisis and invest across government in prevention programmes.”Jones has previously said Britain needs a 10-year, coordinated strategy to tackle knife crime among young people, similar to the successful long-term effort to reduce teenage pregnancy. She believes professionals from health, education and social media sectors should work together against knife crime, with a focus on social media platforms taking more responsibility for posts that glamorise knives and violence.

Source: The Guardian December 14, 2017 14:02 UTC