Chaperones to Walk Children Home From School in Knife Crime Hotspots
Chaperones are to take children to and from school to protect them from violence in knife-crime hotspots under a new Government scheme that will be manned by volunteers. The Telegraph has more.
Up to 250 schools in the areas worst affected by knife crime will be identified by the Home Office using new mapping technology, which can pinpoint the most dangerous streets and when pupils are most at risk.
Adult volunteers from charities and teachers will be recruited to act as chaperones, replicating a scheme in Chicago, which cut crime on targeted routes by 14% and helped students cross gang boundaries.
The approach was first trialled in the West Midlands, with 90 chaperones across 20 routes in 2021-2022. An evaluation of the Home Office-backed scheme by the Youth Endowment Fund found pupils felt safer and that it “supported their education, mental health and well-being”.
The Home Office will invest £1.2 million to support schools in areas of high knife crime and improve pupils’ safety on their way to and from school.
It is part of a series of initiatives being announced this week by Labour as part of its efforts to deliver on its manifesto commitment to halve knife crime within a decade.
Sarah Jones, the policing minister, said: “No child should fear walking to school. That is why we must prevent violence from ever occurring.
“With the right support, the right opportunities and the right interventions in the right places, we can prevent harm long before a young person finds themselves in danger. This Government will halve knife crime within a decade, saving lives and protecting communities.”
Knife crime has returned to pre-Covid levels with more than 50,000 offences reported to police, just short of the record high. But homicides have fallen by 8% for all age groups, decreasing more sharply among teenagers.
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Knife crime has exploded with the demise of firearms (1997) and the open borders-erase Whites-Muslimify/Africanise/Asianise the country.
Imagine a country so ‘safe’ and so ‘tolerant’ that children need to be walked home. At my son’s sec. school in London, it was not unusual for children after the end of school day to be set on by school gangs, and forced to surrender, bikes, wallets, phones etc.
Very enriching.
Yup – our daughters escaped that but most of their white male classmates had their phones nicked
At my local school there are now PCSOs overseeing the kids leaving. Funnily enough it’s very enriched.
Wonder if Iranian school children are exposed to such examples of western societal decay?
This from Scotland. Kids running the gauntlet just walking to and from school. Get stabbed or preyed on by overtly predatory slimeballs of the migrant variety. The girls will probably just get told to wear trousers and avoid skirts. What a depressing sign of the times; ”Schoolgirls in a Scottish town have been handed rape alarms by police over fears they were being stalked by illegal migrants being housed in a nearby hotel. The intervention from officers came after it was alleged that the men had been taken photos of the girls in between lessons in Dumfries. One concerned mother has claimed the harassment has left to some girls feeling too frightened to walk the streets of the Scottish town. The hotel migrants have been spotted hanging around the school and ogling at children during break times, according to The Sun. The mother said: “Every single day these guys turn up just as the school is about to break for lunch and hang around just to perv on the kids. “Some of the girls have stopped going into the town as they feel so unsafe. There have been suggestions that the men have made crude comments to some of the… Read more »
Moving the migrants to a sealed detention centre near the airport not an option?
More meetings like this need to take place so that locals can get their voices heard and the shameful NIMBYtards responsible can see with their own eyes the level of opposition. People aren’t daft and they hear of all these crimes and other problems perpetrated by migrants happening in other parts of Britain and they fear the same will happen in their locality because they’re getting the exact same type of men dumped in their vicinity.
”Meetings like this have taken place across this nation. Thousands of residents looking for explanations and answers to questions no one wants to answer! “WHY have you dumped these MEN in our home towns without asking or consulting us” the answer my friends is simple…they DO NOT give a TOSS !!”
https://x.com/orlaminihane/status/2041517968958328882
Build the detention centre on an islet in the Falklands.
Jesus wept!
Britain’s finished
People can volunteer to walk children home from school…
What could possibly go wrong?
Sticking plaster for a severed artery.
Let’s not deal with the real issue – gangs of lawless sun-tanned youths running riot – let’s just pretend this is a day out in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
Ain’t that nice, ain’t that lovely?
And all for nothing.
Talking of severed arteries, since when have these been a thing? Hopefully they contain more than plasters. 😮
”Tragically so many lives are lost each year due to traumatic bleeding, some of which could have been prevented by properly using one of the recommended Daniel Baird Foundation Bleed Control Kits.
If we can get as many publicly accessible venues to have these kits as possible, the public will know there is one nearby so they can help someone in need.”
https://controlthebleed.org.uk/buy-bleed-control-kit.html
Thanks Mogs 👍
Rupert Lowe’s RESTORE BRITAIN has a better idea:
“Detain. Deport.”
What a ridiculous graph – knife crime rises for four years, then falls for one, and all the red bars show what would happen if that one year’s fall were to be continued for the next 9 years! Who in their right mind would actually predict that?
The MET Office?
Very good! It’s a true indictment though.
Perhaps it was drawn by Diane Abbott. I suspect that a trend line will show stabbings increasing. I wonder how it would look if stabbings by immigrants were plotted as well.
Well well, when I was a young puppy, this wasn’t necessary – whatever could have gone wrong?
Ah Jack, you didn’t bite enough of them and send them packing.
None of us did.
Great idea- anything to avoid addressing the root causes
Chaperones used to be called “parents” and they were related to the children. That seems to be the safest option to me.
I guess the least safe places will be identified as those which are still recognisably English and have not yet received the “enrichment” the Establishment has forced on us over the last half-century.