How is £5 million in sports funding supposed to stop the youth crime epidemic?
Knife crime is rampant in the UK, much of it involving young people. How is £5 million of sports funding supposed to turn it around?
Here’s the story. Discussion below:
I was talking about this only last night, with a 19-year-old friend of mine.
He told me that stunts like this from Dominic Raab are pointless.
Young people are surrounded by a culture of knife crime, he said – in the music they hear, the social media they visit, and in the people they meet in their daily lives (including, often, family members).
In the year ending March 2022, there were around 45,000 offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in England and Wales (excluding Greater Manchester Police Force), according to the Office for National Statistics. This was nine per cent higher than in 2020/21 and a massive 34 per cent higher than in 2010/11.
Home Office data shows there were 261 homicides (also known as murders) (currently recorded) using a sharp instrument, including knives and broken bottles. This meant sharp instruments were used in 40 per cent of the 594 homicides that occurred in 2021/22.
Data from NHS Digital shows there were 4,171 “hospital episodes” recorded in English hospitals in 2021/22 due to assault by a sharp object. This was two per cent higher than in 2020/21 and 14 per cent higher than in 2014/15.
How is a pittance of cash spread across the UK to fund sport supposed to help turn that tide?
Not only is it not enough, it will not be interesting to many of the youngsters who may have been involved in creating the statistics quoted above.
I wonder who provided the advice on which this was based, and on what information it was based.
And I wonder who knows how much it will cost to effect real change.
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The money will dissappear into personal accounts and what little is left, will be ‘lost in admin’….very little , if any will actually go where it is needed….It is just another waste of tax payer’s money. Corruption, pushed by the tories wins every time.