Teacher Anjum Peerbacos and human rights activist Heena Khaled discuss news, education, politics and more from their perspective as hijabi Muslim women educators. The episode ‘Knife Crime, the UK, Youth Crime, the Scottish Way and Tory Cuts’ unpacks some of the statistics, assumptions and tried remedies to the issues behind the problems of youth and knife crime. While we may feel the pressure is on schools and youth services to solve this, evidence shows that looking at the root causes and treating it as a public health matter has been useful in finding a durable solution – and one that could be applied in England.

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