NEWS

Our first group of Ask Me Community Ambassadors go live on Tuesday
15th October – deployed throughout the borough in areas where they can add
real value to support young people and families at risk of gang activity of the
threat of youth violence. We have Ambassadors based.. →

‘Glamorous’ criminal networks promising easy money are posing a serious challenge for social services.

Read the full article; https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/15/airbnb-and-a-free-lunch-how-county-lines-drug-gangs-lure-teenagers?CMP=share_btn_link

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A greater urgency is needed to tackle knife crime was the headline in yesterday’s Evening Standard. A headline published after seven people have been violently killed in London over the last nine days; the latest fatality, a 17 year old boy stabbed to death by a gang of thugs in front of a KFC in.. →

The Wickers Charity; https://wickers.org.uk/

Much of the headlines after Notting Hill were about crime figures, arrest numbers, the temperature and attendance figures. The media often misses some of the important causes and messages presented by the London communities on floats, banners and.. →

This sobering article reveals a total of 1,144 knife possession offences in schools, where the suspect was a child, were recorded in England, Scotland and Wales last year. The headline bleakly recalls one child as young as six found with a knife in a North London school. The statistics and anecdotes.. →

The Ask Me Team joined 200 people at a community event in
Walthamstow last Thursday 15th August, organised by Stella Creasy
MP. The Met Commissioner Cressida Dick also attended with officers from the
area to listen to the concerns of the community on the back of the recent rise→

Lots of media coverage this week about women being coerced into carrying knives. You can read more on this story at this BBC article; https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49264665

Be part of the solution, sign up to be a youth Ambassador : https://ask-us.org.uk/register-your-interest/

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Select Committee response to the 19% rise in violent crime (recorded in England and Wales) includes recommendation that government increases funding for your outreach & community youth projects. Further information available here; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49162515

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The Metropolitan Police are taking part in the national gun surrender. Until Sunday 4 August 2019 you can hand in any firearm or ammunition anonymously to your nearest police station. #GiveUpYourGun and help keep firearms out of the wrong hands 👉 http://news.met.police.uk/news/met-launches-video-as-part-of-2019-national-firearms-surrender-week-376276

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A radical approach to tackling knife crime in Scotland