‘Inadequate’ Government leadership and funding is hindering councils in tackling knife crime, a former Whitehall tsar has said.
Speaking to the Home Affairs Committee today, former victims’ commissioner and architect of the Troubled Families programme, Dame Louise Casey said: ‘I think the Government’s strategy is woefully inadequate.
'What they are doing at the moment is not a match for the people out there doing bad.
'We have a lack of leadership at the centre.’
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