The government’s £3m campaign to cut knife crime has so far failed to reduce the number of offences, figures produced by the Home Office on July 21 showed. The campaign began last July in ten police areas, but in the first nine months 126 people died in knife attacks in those areas, seven more than in the same period the previous year. A second phase of the scheme, focusing on all forms of serious violence among young people, is to be rolled out at a cost of £5m.
