The prime minister said:"To bring about lasting change and protect young people from the tragic violence we have seen on our streets, we need to work across society to intervene early and stop them from being drawn into crime.
"That is why our plans to introduce a whole community - or 'public health' - approach are designed to identify more young people at risk."It comes a day after Sajid Javid granted police new powers to increase stop and search activity following a spate of stabbings across London and in other main centres of population in England and Wales.
"For them it can feel like joining a gang is the best way - or the only way - to help their mum pay the rent. So this poverty of hope has a devastating impact on society as a whole."
It isn’t their jobs to do that. I wouldn’t be a teacher for all the tea in China.
Then give them all guns
Maybe they should just ban knives -checks notes...-
Absolute bollocks. No wonder teachers and teaching assistants are leaving the education sector in droves. UKParliament needs to step up to plate, be counted, and get tough on knifecrime KnifeCrimeEpidemic summit today just diversion tactics.
Christ she is completely useless
We are getting to the point where it will be quicker to list which ills in society teachers are NOT responsible for solving. Talk about spreading it too thinly! Less money, more responsibility, threats of action if you miss something. Thank goodness I left 2 years ago
Fantastic! Let’s make everyone else responsible except the parents! Classic!
How about they bloody leave teachers to do what they are employed to do TEACH. Like they are not going to report anything that starts to ring alarm bells.. Get the police back on the streets cheapskate!
Let's see - true story 6 years ago, year 5 classroom: NQT PPA cover teacher: Child x was chasing Child y round saying he was going to stab him with the scissors Me: OMG let's get him to the Inclusion Leader (AHT) 1 hour later...
As well as safeguarding, falls under health and safety at work act.
Where are the Parents? Teachers doctors paramedics already do this it’s Safeguarding! Anything to take away responsibility from who is to blame! May = stopped top and search Governments = lack of funding = less police on the streets Get a life and wake up its parents and police
And then be accused of being a racist? FFS stop it now it wont happen
You have to be joking !!!!
This guy called it years ago in this speech!
Whilst promoting violence and sex on TV? Clever 🙄
Thought that was the parents job
Great idea let's blame teachers on 20k a year. Can't possibly be the Tory government's fault for cutting police numbers and slashing education and council budgets.
Given that discipline in schools has become so difficult, why should a teacher have a legal duty to act against knife crime? Perhaps all schools should have a knife arch installed that's strictly monitored by the Head Teacher!
Load of nonsense maybe more police on the streets.
Teachers are not the police they are there to teach children NOT to put themselves or other children at risk it is not fair on them. Sounds like what America are trying to do and arm teachers with guns. The Government has a Legal right to protect its citizens
I hope you now know how me and kids felt when a 9mm gun was shot for 3 days and the police did jack shit to stop him and let him walk free after attacking me in my home and you ask why we kill people how abuse others.
Teachers, really? Parents need to be held accountable, parents (have) a legal responsibility for their offspring!
What are they going to do? Speak to them in a slightly firmer tone of voice? Because the wet liberals have ensured there are no other sanctions available.
Cool, I’ll be sure to report any kids who look a bit stabby.
How come the PARENTS are never given any of the responsibility?
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Maybe sajidjavid and his fellow MPs should be under a 'legal duty' to do their job properly. We might not be in the mess we are today.
Why show the faces of the victims but not the criminals?
I’m not sure what they’re now expected to do but I’m sure the troubles there are recruiting nurses, doctors, teachers etc is only going to get worse because of this
More tory madness. Teachers cannot see the future... Are we really sure LAB would be even worse than this shower?
How To Create An Exodus of Teachers, Part 1
Absurd.
Where are the families
Teachers should teach, not do the job of parent and police. The govt is so fucking useless at this point
Look deterrent is the key here !!! Get caught carrying a bladed weapon with no reason for it you get 5 years jail no courts no defence you go to jail and 5 years not half also you get jailed as far away as possible ie reside London means your going up Scotland for your time !!!
No wonder the youth of today are morons with a belief of self entitlement after having to put up with listening to teachers moan all day long about either the hours, the money or the low amount of annual leave...!
This government will blame anyone but there seifs crime has gone up since 2010 that tells you who’s at fault public services doing there best being undercut under the Tory’s there unbelievable
Don’t we all have a legal duty to report ANY crime? The problem is what happens when we Do report a crime? NOTHING! What are our Social Services doing? Where I live we never see a Policeman other than in the Supermarket shopping! Reporting a crime these days is almost pointless.
It’s always Govt shirking it’s responsibilities onto groups ill equipped to deal with such things. My wife regularly has to supervise Addicts taking methadone in the Chemist where she works. No training, added responsibility, not paid more, regular trouble. Will be the same here.
More nonsense that will do nothing. The only way to deal with this culture is to remove this culture.
But the teachers don’t even teach the children 👶🏻 they haven’t got a clue what to do, now to tell them to deal with knife crime 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪 what a joke 🤭
When you are struggling to recruit teachers and nurses making them responsible for knife crime isn’t going to help. If your looking for a public figure to hold to account for knife crime deaths look no further than Theresa May.
That’s what we need, more laws! Who is going to enforce it? The police officers you cut or the teachers you underfunded?
Holding the parents to account would be more effective.
results of multiculturalism
And parents ? No responsibilities?
Because laws are cheap and politicians get to blame under funded police forces for the failure, now teachers can join the gang
How about a moral duty to act? This assumes teachers see knives and then pretend they haven't seen anything.
EBoofle Teachers already do this as it falls under safeguarding.
I KNOW CERTAIN PEOPLE CARRY KNIVES. I WILL NOT BE REPORTING IT AS I REFUSE TO EVER ASSIST THE POLICE WITH ENQUIRES. THEY WILL NOT MAKE ME.
Sad. Just sad. Poll: When another person use a knife to attempt to kill another human being, whose’s fault is it?
This seems to be missing one group that I would have thought was the most important, the f***ing parents.
Not just teachers, cops and medics too. My girlfriend's a Dr. Is she to be 'held to account' if one of her patients decides to stab someone? How about StopAndSearch + long sentences for knife possession + support for single mothers + funding for five-a-side / music / tech'?
Part and Parcel
WTF
Wow just add to the massive list of things they do, pointless tick box exercises, adherence to a not fit for purpose curriculum etc
Everyone should have a legal duty to report kids going down the route of carrying knives
What they going to do, stop the lesson, So they can search every kids bags 😂😂
Imagine how tempting a job offer that makes it, and all for the ginormous salary of £25k. No wonder we have some of the best teachers teaching our kids ...NOT!
Teachers? These kids don’t listen to Police, they’re even less likely to listen to Teachers! Most knife carriers are unlikely to be in mainstream education as it is. More rhetoric.
How ridiculous to put that on teachers just because the government have lost control. Well they will need paying a lot more is they are expected to risk their lives as well as teach
We call it conceal and carry
maybe they want to use Philip Lawrence as an Example of how to prevent it? what stupid people are in power, teachers are as much a victim as those that get hurt,,
Teacher's Job in Britain 1-find knives 2- breast ironing tape spotting 3- social status of child, his/her parents fighting 4-teach 5 year old about gay/lesbian relationships now 5- keep a track of children's food allergies 6-Make sure dinner is done Who's gonna teach the kids!!
Need to be trained in karate
If only the police weren't so busy abusing POC
teachers had it too easy for too long.
I don’t even know where to start with how stupid this is
April Fool?
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