Guns, Gangs and Knife Crime Event

The NYA, along with the Association of Principal Youth and Community Officers and the Speaking Out Project (NCVCCO and NCVYS) jointly organised a round table event to discuss how to combat knife, gun and gang crime, and how this should be taken forward with policy makers.

The event excited significant debate on the key issues of violent weapon crime by groups of young people is not a new phenomenon, and is in part fuelled by the media. Whilst the scale of violence and injury is worrying, weapon violence is not an isolated issue. Group crime involving weapons transcends ethnicity and occurs across all races, with neighbourhood poverty and deprivation at the root.

The round table event focussed on developing solutions to the high profile issues as many of the causes and consequent problems are well documented. The discussion emphasised the need to take concerted action at both national levels and put forward a number of recommendations.

Useful Reading

Gang, gun and knife crime round table (May 2008)

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