Exclusive: Home secretary cites knives and pressures of social media as she announces plans for ‘young futures’ unit to prevent crime
Teenagers have it “much, much harder” than previous generations because of knives, mental health pressures and social media, Yvette Cooper has said, as she announced plans for a new unit to prevent violent crime among young people.
As part of the push, the home secretary will tell councils and police forces they have until Christmas to put proposals in place to tackle crime among young people. Cooper, who first announced an ambition for a £100m “young futures” policy at last year’s Labour conference, said there would also be “youth hubs” for teenagers similar to how the Blair administration launched Sure Start for babies and toddlers.
“As part of that, the young futures programme is a 10-year vision, about how we prevent young people being drawn into crime in the first place, and also about how we give their future back.” This week’s A-level results also showed that, while the national exam grades were among the highest for decades, there wereCooper highlighted the young lives lost to crime, and the government’s commitment in particular to halving violence against women and girls.
However, Cooper stopped short of saying the Southport attack in which three girls were killed and other children and adults injured at a Taylor Swift dance class should be seen in the context of an epidemic of violence against females.
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