'Super-inspection' praises Manchester team tasked with protecting young people
manchestereveningnews.co.ukInspectors have praised how effectively Manchester council, GMP, schools and the NHS work together to protect young people from serious violence and criminal exploitation.
The inspection by Ofsted, the Care Quality Commission, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services and His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Probation was carried out over five days in October.
The results of the inspection, which were published last week, follow figures which reveal that knife crime has fallen by 16 per cent in Greater Manchester despite rising across England and Wales.
Responding to the latest figures, which show that the city-region still has one of the highest levels of knife crime in the country, mayor Andy Burnham said there is still more work to do be done to tackle it.
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