Resurrect services that help UK’s young people | Letters

Our well-funded (now demolished) statutory Youth and Community service provided safe spaces where skilled workers built trusting relationships, writes Annette RimmerCiaran Thapar (There’s no quick fix for knife crime, but there is a solution, 27 September) is spot on about there being no quick fix for young people’s issues. Youth and community workers work in a preventative way, heading off serious issues including mental distress, racism, relationship abuse and extremism. Our well-f