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Over 70 public suggestions from three public gun and knife events including Choice FM. Presented to Home Seretary by some of our listeners. This was used to inform the Home Office consultations in their legislation on gun and knife crime.
1. More support for parents
2. Respect for police
3. Better and more flexible education schemes
4. More community groups and community group support to tackle gun and knife crime
5. More groups that the public can join at regional and national and to tackle gun and knife crime
6. Media informing people of what’s out there to tackle gun, gangs and knife crime
7. Multi agency working
8. More police in the area
9. More mentors and the creation of mentoring systems
10. Black role models in schools and secondary and do something to make absent fathers live up to their responsibilities
11. Parents to turn off the TV and speak to their kids
12. More positive role models through education
13. Development of self love in the community
14. Good teachers
15. Need to recognise that peer group pressure is becoming greater influence than parental pressure, so parents need to become more sophisticated in the ways they connects with young people and need to celebrate young people and positive peer-to-peer mentoring
16. More research and evaluation
17. Better access to the opportunities that are out there for young people
18. Recognition of opportunities available for young people after they leave school and commitment to further education
19. Empowering black youth to know- through mentoring and education that they can succeed and there can be more Dawn Butlers in parliament and more great black great teachers
20. Action not re-action systems in society to prevent the need for emergency meetings
21. People taking more responsibility including media and parents
22. Rights of passage
23. More joined up working of organisations
24. Listening to young people
25. More publicity of education grants and other money available for young people
26. Young people being accountable for their own actions
27. Education followed through with opportunity, so educated on life skills as well as academically followed through with realistic opportunities
28. Giving young people a 2nd chance and improving services like Pupil referral Units
29. Old 'uns understanding younger people better
30. Slightly more even handed media coverage – good and bad things reported
31. Coordinating more with all agencies and more positive role models inside and outside schools
32. Better training for police so they treat people with the same respect they’d dealt with if they were stopped and searched
33. Stronger communities and people helping people
34. Praising and celebrating of the good achievements from individuals and organisations in the community
35. Police to stop arresting young black males and giving them criminal records so they cannot pass CRB checks and get jobs
36. Police to stop stereotyping people
37. People to talk to young people and understand their needs
38. More things to do for young people
39. Inter gang discussions and forums to discuss their problems and sort out their problems
40. Youth forums
41. Promotions of groups that are doing well on TV and more positive black role models on TV and in the media
42. Less bias of communities in the media more equality and more access to opportunities
43. Everyone should take responsibility and be inspiring for young people
44. More positive role models in media especially positive black role models
45. Greater awareness and promotion of the good work of role models who can relate to target audience today
46. Working towards unity within communities
47. More youths involved in these committees and bodies dealing with gun, gang and knife crime, so they can get a better incite of what young people think
48. More open discussions
49. Give young people a say in what they are taught in school
50. Re-evaluate the way money is being spent
51. Stop preaching and start doing
52. Something to boost self esteem and self respect of young people
53. More support for young people
54. More communication between parties involved
55. Consult more with young people, e.g. Lewisham Young mayors initiative
56. Authority should reflect the community better - if 40% of community is black or a minority, 40% of people in authority should be black of an ethnic minority
57. Listen to young people and act on what they want
58. Making youth realises that every life is special
59. More respect across generations
60. Police and government need to show us we can trust them
61. Recognising impact and legacy of slavery, repairing damage of history in homes, communities and wider society, greater development of self and programmes for understanding self, lending to greater social and community cohesions
62. More youth workers qualified in dealing with personal issues and life skills programmes and more long term funding of programmes and more black and ethnic minority people in suits in the city
63. People to stop feeling sorry for themselves and face tough consequences for their actions
64. Use of high impact media campaigns from government, like on drinking and driving
65. Support for media outlets that are doing something positive towards tackling or reporting on young people and guns, gangs and knife crime
66. Recognising that young people need to be heard and given a platform to lend and inform this debate
67. Life curriculum as well as school curriculum and access to people who’ve been convicted for carrying guns so they can tell young people not to do the same as them
68. Visits to prisons to show consequences of gun and knife crime
69. Early intervention with children when they show signs of difficulties to stop them falling into the traps that lead to gangs
70. Consolidate and rank existing recommendations
71. Homogenise data collection across government and charitable sectors
72. Divert more funds to where it is needed
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