Fear or Fashion?
Introduction
• A brief presentation
of Kickstart’s work
with young people at
risk of carrying
knives
• Simon Grant- Knife
Crime Project Worker
Topics of Discussion
•
Schools based work
•
Community based work
Summary of activities adopted
• ‘Drop your knife live your life’ DVD campaign
and 5 a side football league
• One to one support for victims and potential
perpetrators
• Expressions
• Senior knife crime forum
• Junior knife crime forum 11 – 16yrs old
• Schools based Circle Programme
Poster Campaign
Expressions
Methods & approaches Top 5
• Circle programme
• Knife crime forum
• Expressions
• Referrals
• Impact questionnaires
Top 5 tips for practitioners
• Be yourself
• Have an open mind to knife crime issues
• You need to give to receive
• Consistency is key
• Patience is vital to any change