A Merseyside company has started a educational booklet  to highlight the issue of knife crime among young people. The booklet produced is “Down Tools – the stuff on knife crime”..

It will comprise a full colour 24 page publication with advice and information about knife crime to be distributed to young people across the country.

There is also a New Teacher Training Pack designed for all PSHE Teachers coming in the next few weeks.

Workshops are taking place across Liverpool the last July at St Georges High School Bootle and the next one due at St Wilfreds. Downtools Ltd are now seeking business sponsorship for the project which is on going and will eventually be rolled out Nationally.

All workshops have been well received by Children and Teachers alike and we will be uploading there comments onto this website.

There is no funding from Any Council or Government for this project/campaign.

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DOWNTOOLS has been designed and developed by professionals, who have many years experience of working with young people on; drugs, crime, sex, racism, homophobia, peer pressure, gang culture, joint enterprise and relationship issues.  DOWNTOOLS aims to raise awareness and encourage young people to think for themselves and to act responsibly, rather than being told what they should think and do.  DOWNTOOLS objective is to challenge young people’s attitudes and encourage independent thinking by informed debate and group discussions about knife crime so that young people are better placed to keep safe, choose not to carry or use knives and therefore act in such a manner that they contribute to reducing knife crime statistics.

“We are hoping to get main business sponsors for each of the boroughs in the Liverpool city region. The aim of this project is to actually try to engage with the kids. Just like drugs, it is not enough to just say ‘don’t do this’.”

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