The Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) has secured further funding to continue to help tackle knife crime in the capital.

Boris Johnson’s decision to extend support to charities Redthread and Oasis Youth, whose workers support young victims of knife crime and other violent offences, means efforts can continue to help end the tragic cycle of violence often seen on the streets of London.

In a letter to London Assembly member Caroline Pidgeon, who urged Mr Johnson to support the organisations and their work in December last year, he stated that MOPAC has commissioned funding for Redthread and Oasis Youth, and is looking to implement the ‘Cardiff Model’ in London across all major trauma centres (MTC) and A&E departments.

Ms Pidgeon said: “This announcement is incredibly welcome.

“Sensible and much needed policies to help young victims of knife crime are now being given the support they so desperately needed.

“Finally every A&E department across London will share anonymised data to help reduce violent crime across the capital.”

Just last week, on Wednesday (January 27), a man named as Harjit Singh Dulai was stabbed to death in a Hayes Park.

RedThread will continue to place youth workers across London’s four MTC’s for the next three years, to engage and work with young victims of violence, as part of the MTC Youth Violence Intervention Programme which is funded by the Home Office Police Innovation Fund.

In addition MOPAC is also funding Oasis Youth, through the London Crime Prevention Fund, to extend their services and place youth workers into North Middlesex Hospital until the end of 2016/17.

The mayor also agreed to adopt the ‘Cardiff Model’ across all A&E’s in London - an approach to sharing and using anonymised data on violent offences received through A&E admissions to inform and develop crime reduction policies by the police and local authorities.

In areas where the Cardiff Model has been implemented there has been a 42% reduction in A&E admissions due to violent crime.

Hospital emergency departments in London sharing data through SafeStats and with community safety partnerships (CSP):

1. Charing Cross, Hammersmith

2. St. Mary’s, Paddington

3. Whittington

4. Whipps Cross

5. Newham

6. Northwick Park. Harrow

7. Ealing, Southall

8. West Middlesex, Isleworth

9. Royal Free

10. North Middlesex

11. Homerton

12. Royal London

13. Kings College

14. St. Georges

15. King Georges, Ilford

16. Queens, Romford

17. St Thomas’