Nurse's warning to youths on carrying knives

A nurse speaks

A & E, which graphically illustrate the dangers of knife carrying out an impact on young people in Liverpool

One of excluded pupils in the audience of 30 people due to A & E nurse practitioner Rob Jackson to describe the worst thing that has been dealing with the consequences of knife crime.

Undoubtedly, Jackson said: "A rider very close to see children dying to see the look on the face of a mother when I say that your son just died of his injuries had a knife. Guy was recently asked about his mother and five minutes later he stopped breathing. I could not save. If you are carrying knives or ride with those who do, I think, luck runs out. "

Jackson, 39, is for children in schools and other behavioral problems in the event of knife crime in the North End of Liverpool. The city lies alongside London and West Midlands, as the three regions with the biggest knife crime in the UK. Jackson presentations to date have reached over 1000 young people in Merseyside. His speech is accompanied by gruesome photographs of injuries stole a knife on a large screen to negotiate a temporary message that an act can have devastating consequences.

injury knife culture in Liverpool were reduced by 28% over the 18 months of Jackson was a pioneering work. Note that many stab-injured victims are their own blades, driven by its own protection, often against drug traffickers and seize the weapon to use against them.

are not all injuries occurring attacks. Jackson tells of a young man with a knife in his back pocket and slipped and fell. The knife slashed boy back and he developed necrotizing fasciitis of flesh eating bacteria in the leaf that devoured more than half of his body and killed him.

• This approach to knife fight escalating crime was the creation of Rachel England, chief of staff of the Crime of Liverpool Youth Service, which received funding from the Council of Justice to implement a project pilot with health workers in preventing knife crime.

"The research was conducted in London and the United States showing the effectiveness of the participation of health workers, but would not simply groups of children taken to A & E he was surprised to stop knife -. that the approach is a proven failure We wanted to have a strong impact on them, but in an educational setting, with appropriate learning outcomes, "said England. "Rob has treated many cases of what is said is closely linked with the images and was absolutely brilliant. We had to twist arms at first, because they believed that children listen. They do the job."

An initial pilot involved 100 young people with convictions for knives, and one participant relapsed with a knife. "It is generally much higher," said England. "We wanted to show that knife crime is not" just cause of death, "but also a serious disability and disability and the terrible devastation to families. We believe that the work Rob has been instrumental in reducing knife crime here. "

Actor Brooke Kinsella, whose younger brother, Ben, was stabbed to death in 2008, which was commissioned by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and the interior minister, Theresa May, the prepare a report on programs to discourage young people from carrying knives, cites the work of Jackson as having a greater impact than other projects. Jackson and England are talking with the Ministry of Interior about how the model can be replicated in other parts of the UK, young offenders and in schools and excluded pupils.

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