11/09/2023
I met with a very empathetic and knowledgeable Suzanne Webb on Friday 8th September to discuss our petition and the James Brindley Full Circle Programme. A very productive meeting!
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knife crime, the scourge of our times, continues to raise its ugly head daily and affected families struggle to bring it front and centre of the national agenda.
Children of school age, are making life changing choices to carry weapons, with catastrophic consequences for themselves and others. But serious youth violence is not inevitable, it is predictable and therefore preventable, using a programme of consequential thinking in schools.
The unique and independently accredited James Brindley Full Circle Programme is already turning young lives around in schools in the West Midlands, by tackling the root causes of serious youth violence, manifested through knife crime. We need to upscale and adopted it as the national standard for educating and safeguarding our country’s children, by making it part of the national curriculum.
