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Home Office in new knives clampdown

The Home office is focussing its anti-knife strategy on halting the sale of knives to under-18s, ministers announced today. In a letter to the Local Authority of Chief Executives and Association of Chief Police Officers, Home Office minister Vernon Coaker emphasised concerns over young people’s access to knives and asked for increased activity to tackle… Read more »

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Rise in child poverty since Labour came to power
Rise in child poverty since Labour came to power

The number of children from working families living in poverty has increased by ten per cent since 1997, when Labour came to power. The majority of children living in poverty are now in homes where at least one person is working, for the first time in 11 years. The ten per cent increase relates to… Read more »