Wiltshire anti-knife campaigner calls for improved school security
Jordan Turner says knife crime is now a daily occurrence
An anti-knife crime campaigner in Wiltshire says she feels let down as attacks happen on an almost daily basis in England.
Jordan Turner, who lost her brother Lee after he was stabbed in 2021, told Greatest Hits Radio that young people need to be educated around the dangers of knife crime.
On Monday (3/2), a 15 year old boy was stabbed to death at a school in Sheffield.
Jordan told us she was devastated when she heard.
"It has a ripple effect," she said, telling us that it will impact the people who were around the incident at the time.
Jordan added: "Parents shouldn't have to worry about sending their children to school and then not coming home.
"But because of the lack of education surrounding knife crime, surrounding county lines surrounding gangs, how are children ever meant to know if they're not educated on it?"
She's called for security at schools to be beefed up, including metal detectors in a bid to prevent bladed weapons getting into the classroom.
And while Jordan said that might sound extreme, she insists it's needed.
"How more dramatic can it get than you sending your child to school and then not coming home because they've been stabbed? We're never going to be able to stop knife crime, but if the government can put things in place that's going to reduce knife crime, it's a win-win," she said.
Jordan told us that the system is letting down friends and families of victims with every further life lost to knife crime.
She said: "My brother was stabbed in 2021. And when I'm in 2025 and we're seeing more than ever unfortunately over the past year and a half, it has just been a daily thing, whether it's in a city, in a town, it's happening daily."
Jordan explained to us that it's going to take a lot of dedication to reduce and end knife crime.
Through her organisation, Change Lives No To Knives, she's working to educate young people about knife crime.
By visiting schools they hope to give people the knowledge of treating a catastrophic bleed as well as sharing the impact of losing a loved-one to knife crime.
Jordan said education needs to be delivered at primary school level, before children move into secondary school.
The Government has pledged to halve knife crime over the next 10 years.