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IDHTH launches latest anti-knife crime film
Today sees the launch of the latest anti-knife crime film from the IDHTH campaign. The 60-second advert focuses on the physical consequences of knife crime and features a young person who becomes severely disabled after a knife fight. It shows how easy it is to lose control of a knife in a fight, and the terrible impact that it can have on a life. The film is available for you to view on YouTube or Bebo.
2009 IDHTH advertising campaign launches
IDHTH has released a new powerful anti-knife crime advert, based on the testimonies of real inmates serving sentences for knife crime offences. This can be viewed on YouTube and Bebo now, and TV music channels Kiss, the Box, 4 Music and Kerrang from the 19th of October. the film is accompanied by posters on billboards, in buses and on shop front shutters across the UK showing the punitive consequences of knife crime, and a range of merchandise for stakeholder use in local knife crime campaigning.
To find out more click here.
IDHTH and Youth Offending Teams unite
to tackle knife crime
This year IDHTH is working to help Youth Offending Teams across the country deliver anti-knife crime messages to young offenders and those at risk of getting involved in knife crime. By providing materials and guidance, we'll be working with them in the coming months to support their delivery of knife crime prevention programmes. We'll be featuring case studies of their activity on the IDHTH stakeholder site in the coming months, so check back and see if you can incorporate some of the activity ideas within your own work.
If you're part of a Youth Offending Team and would like to find out about the materials available, click here to contact us.
Tackling Youth Knife Crime Guide
The recently published Tackling Youth Knife Crime guide contains key learnings and good practice for police forces, based on activity in the Tackling Knives Action Programme areas. It aims to help guide police to understand their knife crime problem, plan enforcement activities and engage with public and stakeholders.
Click here to download the Tackling Youth Crime Guide.
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