The government are taking a lead on minimising the amount of extreme violence occurring in the UK.
They have developed a strategy called 'Serious Violence Strategy', where it aims to look at the root cause of violence, focusing on young people and how they can change before turning to violence as an option.
Estimated by the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) survey that was conducted by the ending of September 2017, found that 1.2 million incidents of violence that were experienced by adults aged 16 and over, saw no change from the previous year.
At the end of September, the statistics show a decline in violence, however 545 people still suffered violence with injury, and 640 suffering violence without injury.
The Police Home Office show how many violent offenders were recorded from 2003 to 2017. It shows how 1,116,525 people were recorded as violent offenders in March 2017, showing an overall increase in each crime.
The government's aim is to decrease the levels of violent crime and why people feel the need to turn to violence as an option.
The 4 main strategies the government want to focus on include tackling country lines, and the misuse of drugs, completing an early intervention to prevent violence, creating a support system for communities and sustaining a law enforcement against misconduct.
The enforcements that will be held is a new Early intervention youth fund, which will cost £11 million, in order to support communities to prevent young people turning to violence.
There will be a development in the national county lines co-ordination centre, which is to tackle the violence but also the criminal activity occurring, such as drug trafficking.
Drug action areas and centres will be introduced to tackle heroin and crack addiction, to reduce the level of drug abuse, and violent crimes related to the misuse of drugs.
Anti-knife crime community will be funded up to £1 million from 2018 – 2019 and 2019 – 2020, to further help knife crime on the streets.
Finally Introducing more funding for young people who are working with gang affected young men and women.
This has been conducted to stop young people from going down the path of violence, to prevent a problem before it has occurred.
