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The Youth Endowment Fund’s Jon Yates, joins Dr Marcellus Baz founder of Switch Up, Coco Khan and Nish Kumar on the Pod Save the UK podcast to discuss the practical solutions to preventing knife crime.
You can watch the episode below.
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