Civil society Covenant: Home Office Messer Crime Coalition – case study

The coalition to combat knife crime in September 2024 is a partnership of people with lived experience, civil society and campaign groups that passed a partnership approach with the government on half -crime within a decade.

Cooperation brings with it a deep understanding of interventions that can help prevent knife crime, and bring these perspectives into politics and the creation of programs to address the problem.

The Home Office also works with coalition partners to offer a platform for youth voice and their perspectives on the core problems in relation to razor crime, to increase public security and to support those who need the most urgent to ensure that the experiences of young people live to design government policy.

An important example of the coalition, which works in cooperation with the government, is the valuable contribution that you make to inform the political development and design of the extended handover agreements for knives, Ninja -swords and other weapons.

With the coalition member Fazamnesty and Words 4 weapons, the government delivers extended weapon transmission arrangements throughout July 2025. Fazamnesty runs a mobile transmission van in Greater London, in the West Midlands and Greater Manchester, while words provide 4 weapons in these areas and other weapons, including ninja swords, in these areas.

These initiatives offer young people safe opportunities to give up dangerous weapons, make our streets safer and remove more weapons from communities.