Bishop of Chelmsford: 'Tackle youth knife crime by building confidence of young people in the future...'

The Bishop of Chelmsford, Rt Revd John Gladwin, has set out his thoughts on how to tackle youth knife crime.

The Bishop's views were reported in The Times newspaper on 17 May and are reproduced below. 

“The best way to tackle youth knife crime is to support every strategy that builds the confidence of young people in the future, deepens their own sense of self-worth and opens the way for them to take their place in the community and to contribute to the well-being of the wider world.

"To achieve that will require:

• a fresh commitment to the basic importance of good family life and a tackling of the breakdown of family relationships
• greater support for the voluntary work – especially of the churches – in  their work with young people on the streets and in the community
• zero tolerance for all forms of racism and discrimination
• a similar zero tolerance towards all violent activity and the possession of weapons of violence by anyone of whatever age

"For the whole of out society we face an urgent challenge to renew our culture in the values of equality, the fundamental dignity of every human being and with a fresh sense of our shared accountability as children of God for our citizenship of the world.”

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