Home Affairs Committee to question Dame Louise Casey and the Children’s Commissioner about rising knife crime

Tuesday 30 April 2019

Venue: Grimond Room, Portcullis House

As part of its inquiry into serious violence, the Home Affairs Committee will take evidence from police and crime commissioners, the Youth Violence Commission, the Children’s Commissioner, and the former senior Government official Dame Louise Casey.

The session is likely to cover:

• ·         Possible driving factors behind the rise in knife crime and serious youth violence, including school exclusions, county lines, and cuts to police and local authority funding
• ·         The effectiveness of the police response to serious violence, and
• ·         The quality of Government leadership in this area, including the Serious Violence Strategy and Taskforce.

Witnesses

At 10.00am

• Mark Burns-Williamson OBE, Chair and Serious Violence Lead, Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, and PCC for West Yorkshire
• Vicky Foxcroft MP, Youth Violence Commission

• ·         David Lloyd, Police and Crime Commissioner for Hertfordshire

At 11.00am

• Dame Louise Casey DBE CB, former Director General of the Troubled Families programme and former Victims’ Commissioner
• Anne Longfield OBE, Children’s Commissioner for England