Lessons for five-year-olds aren’t enough to curb knife crime

Jailing more adolescents for knife crime does not prevent reoffending, writes Woody Caan.While it is welcome that police chiefs are waking up to the need for a public health approach to knife crime (Teach five-year-olds the dangers of knife crime, warns police chief, 17 January), it is not clear that they understand what this actually means.For 18 years, the Race Equality Foundation’s Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities programme has been supporting poorly served parents to h