Young people have always fought each other, and violence amongst peers is by no means a new phenomenon. 

Fridays Coventry is a youth initiative I set up to prevent knife crime and gang violence in Coventry. 

Martin Griffiths is a consultant Trauma Surgeon at Bart's Health NHS Trust

Paraphrasing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: violence recoils upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit he digs for another. 

Unravelling the label ‘Gang’. What do we mean when we use labels to sum up humans?

Thirty young people tragically lost their lives to knife-crime in London in 2021, the highest number of deaths in the capital since knife-related records began in 2003

The Champion Support Network (CSN) is a peer support programme for parents and carers of children at risk of serious youth violence

Our fourth quarterly magazine celebrates our first year since launching in June last year

It has become the norm for young people to be afraid of getting “G Checked” 

Youth violence and gang-related harm are serious public health issues.

Much of the UK’s criminal justice sector recruit people with lived experience of the justice system as volunteer supporters.

Foreign Nationals make up 11% of the total prison population in the UK.