People attend a protest against knife crime at the location in south London where 15-year-old Elianne Andam was stabbed to death in September 2023.
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Until government addresses the link between cuts to funding public services and the rise in knife crime, the violence children and young people are facing will continue.
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Children growing up in Northern Ireland are far less likely to be in foster or residential care than those in England, Scotland or Wales.
Tony Blair visiting a children’s centre in Southampton in 2003.
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Sure Start centres are shutting or becoming ‘hubs’, but will they still provide the services which local families value and need?
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Plans to take over failing children’s services won’t mitigate the impact of austerity.