Question follow-through · 68519
Knives: Crime Prevention
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the (a) delivery and (b) effectiveness of knife crime prevention training provided by police forces in schools.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 16 Jul 2025
- Target answer date
- 21 Jul 2025
- Answer
- 24 Jul 2025 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
16 Jul 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what data her Department holds on the (a) delivery and (b) effectiveness of knife crime prevention training provided by police forces in schools.
21 Jul 2025
Target answer date
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24 Jul 2025
Answer published
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF), the government-funded what works centre for protecting children from involvement in violence, provides detailed, practical and evidence-based guidance for schools and education settings on how best to protect children from ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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