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For any copyright, please send me a message. Cuts to “lifesaving” public services have fuelled a knife crime “epidemic”, teenagers warned tonight. Parliament’s Youth Select Committee blamed inequality and differing chances for making some youngsters “vulnerable to the draw of violence and gangs”. Committee members, aged 16 to 18, said the scale of the problem means many young people feel “so afraid” they believe “carrying a knife is the only way to prevent themselves being stabbed”. Committee chairwoman Rachel Ojo, 17, said knife crime left many young people feeling “scared”. She added: “It’s not just young people, it’s the families. “Parents are scared, they don’t really know whether their child is involved in this kind of thing or what they can do to help.” The committee’s report - Our Generation’s Epidemic: Knife Crime - was launched tonight in the Commons and blasted the “limited interventions” available for youth violence. It called on the Government to guarantee funding for at least five years to support youth services. The report said: “Cuts to important and arguably lifesaving services such as community police officers, youth community groups, health and education services means that the support previously in place for vulnerable young people has been weakened or in some cases completely removed. “We believe that this is a fundamental cause of the rise in violent crime, including knife crime, amongst young people.” It welcomed the Government’s adoption of a “public health approach” to the issue, but questioned its commitment to improving the “difficult circumstances” some young people face. It said “current limited interventions” for youth violence would only “remedy the symptoms but never the causes of knife crime”, with action needed to “address the damaging inequalities in our communities”. The committee’s focus on knife crime came after a nationwide poll of more than a million young people in 2018 revealed it was their top concern. According to the report, the 285 fatal stabbings in England and Wales in the year ending March 2018 was the highest since records began in 1946. During its inquiry the committee heard that young people excluded from school, living in poverty or suffering mental health issues or learning difficulties were more vulnerable to knife crime. The report cited research by Westminster’s cross-party parliamentary group on knife crime that suggested areas with the largest cuts to youth services had seen bigger increases in knife crime. A £51million package of measures in the Government’s Serious Violence Strategy amounted to “around an eighth of the total cuts to youth services since 2010”, the committee was told. It rejected suggestions music, social media and p
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