Very very sadly, I am very uneasy about this summer. I fear that the number of young people who have lost their lives on the streets of London will rise above 100 this summer. theguardian.com/society/2018/j…
The middle classes will party and go to festivals and take recreational cocaine, and they will be served by young drug-runners running county lines across the country, and violence will ensue as they protect their turf.
There will be young people who no longer have the structure of the school day, who feel vulnerable and believe they need a knife to protect themselves 24-seven as they go about their business. We have to invest in our young people and youth workers.
