Talking within the Home of Commons this afternoon, Residence Secretary Shabana Mahmood outlined a string of measures the Authorities both has already applied or will put in place in mild of the Southport assaults.
She mentioned that “Stop” referrals have been reviewed, thresholds tightened and a brand new impartial Stop Commissioner might be appointed from tomorrow.
The Authorities can also be consulting on eradicating kids’s entry to social media totally and goals to ban excessive violent content material on-line.
New knife controls have been launched, together with restrictions on on-line gross sales, a ban on ninja-style swords and zombie-style machetes and there might be necessary Youth Offending group referrals for any youngster caught with a blade, she introduced.
Ms Mahmood confirmed a brand new legal offence can be created to shut a authorized hole uncovered by the assault, below which planning mass violence with out an ideological motive at present carries no particular cost.
She additionally sounded a warning about “rising numbers of younger males whose minds are warped by time spent in isolation on-line”, with the second a part of the Southport inquiry set to look at how the state identifies and manages violence-fixated people.
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