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Since our last blog, we’ve made lots of progress in the stock images project. In November, we ran three workshops with young people in HMYOI Polmont and the Good Shepherd Centre. The young people represented a mix of ages, backgrounds and experiences. This mix meant the young people had lots to discuss and had different […]

We’ve partnered up with UK Youth Parliament for their national #ActionAgainstKnifeCrime campaign.

We’ve had a few staff changes over the past few months so thought we’d reintroduce ourselves and let you know which aspects of NKBL we work on.

Just some of the words used by practitioners to describe the current images used by media outlets for stories on knife carrying and crime.

As part of National Youth Work Week 2018, we are celebrating by highlighting the youth work elements that are at the heart of our prevention approach.

NKBL offers free training to practitioners who want to develop primary prevention sessions with young people.

The schools play, ‘Balisong’, produced in partnership with Fast Forward and Strange Town Theatre, has been shortlisted for a Herald Society Award under the Partnership Award category.

The next NKBL network event will be taking place on Thursday 1st November in Glasgow. The focus will be on delivering prevention work in schools.

Sarah from SCCR explains how understanding the inner workings of the teenage brain can be helpful for parents.

How do children's rights play a role in knife crime prevention? We explain using the UNCRC.

Alison Clancy from Parenting Across Scotland gives us 10 tips for parenting teenagers.

We are working with the Ben Kinsella Trust to tell Ben's story and stop knife crime.

Jane talks about our newest resource focused on secondary prevention work.

We explore how knife crime is represented in the media and what we are doing to change it.

We're sharing our highlights of 2017/18.