Oral QuestionDepartment for Education

What steps she is taking to provide preventative education for school children about knife crime.

Tabled: 29 October 2024Answered: 4 November 2024

Asked by

Afzal Khan

LabourManchester Rusholme

Answering Minister

the Secretary of State for Education

Answer from Hansard

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education (Stephen Morgan)

What schools teach can play an important part, alongside wider activity, in the Government’s safer streets mission and tackling knife crime. Relationships, sex and health education includes content on situations that lead to young people carrying knives, including criminal exploitation, county lines operations and grooming relationships. We are reviewing the content to ensure that it remains relevant and protects children’s wellbeing.