At Mayorwatch, a guest post by Emma-Jane Cross, chief executive of Beatbullying:
While Boris' plans clearly prioritise funding tackling youth violence, his commitments must go further to deal with the problem. He clearly understands the need to provide guidance and programmes to steer young people away from violence, gangs and knife crime, but there is simply not enough focus on this. Knife crime is cited as the tip of what the Mayor calls a "pyramid of violence", but we need to see more real preventative work targeted at tackling the behaviours at the bottom of the pyramid.
Now read on.
