South Coast charity say early intervention's needed to help stop knife crime
We're hearing how early intervention helped someone on the South Coast
We're hearing from South Coast charities who say early intervention needs to be a priority - as police forces across the UK come together to fight knife crime.
A National Knife Crime Centre is opening today, which will bring police forces together to crackdown on the sale of knives online, and work towards a 10 year plan to halve knife crime.
Karen Grove's from No Limits charity in Hampshire - she's telling us how early intervention helped one of the people she supported.
She said: "One of the case studies that No Limits is supporting a young person with, there was a history of knife crime, knife involvement; but through positive reinforcement and positive engagement activities, we are absolutely enabling young people to make those positive changes."
She told us what she'd like to see.
She said: "We recognise that there's a significant lack of safe places for young people to go, which then increases abuse and neglect.
"There's a lack of positive role models and support for young people at different settings at different times in their lives.
"So, that really does need to be any focus of any new initiatives, making sure that young people do have safe people and safe places to visit to enable them to receive that support."
No Limits charity supports people across Portsmouth, Southampton, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, and has an advice centre.