20,000 signatures reached
To: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Home Secretary Priti Patel
Give youth services the funding they need
Increase funding for vital youth services, to protect young people from criminal exploitation and prevent them from being caught up in violence.
Why is this important?
Youth violence and child criminal exploitation in the UK are at an all time high, and the government aren’t doing enough to prevent it.
In the past 5 years, knife crime has increased by 71%, and the number of young people who lost their lives to violence rose by 45% from 2017-2018. And because of massive cuts to funding for youth programs and services, the criminal exploitation of children has sky-rocketed.
If the government wants to protect young people in the UK from violence and exploitation, they need to fund youth services that can intervene early in young people’s lives, making sure they have safe places to go to and trusted adults to help them and protect them from harm.
I started this petition because I have children myself, and I want the government to do more to give them opportunities, and keep them safe. Please sign and share.
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