Darren Rodwell says council will ‘start to look at tenancy agreements’ if children and families refuse to speak out
party is threatening to evict families if their children do not inform on people who commit knife crime.authority urged parents to keep closer tabs on their children ahead of the summer holidays amid fears of rising knife violence.
He has also said: “If families know their relatives are linked to crime, they must speak up or we will start to look at tenancy agreements.” His policy was described by one victim of teenage knife violence as “wrong for lots of reasons” and by a senior youth worker as “counterproductive”. Rodwell said the council would offer support in the first instance but that if parents declined, the authorities were “likely to view them as part of the problem”.
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