By Niall Paterson, Sky News Correspondent
The government has announced extra cash to help tackle youth violence and gun crime.
Half a million pounds will be given to the voluntary sector, charities and other organisations working directly with young people at risk of becoming violent offenders and those already involved in knife and gun crime.
In addition, the Home Office intends to expand the "priority areas" in which its Ending Gang and Youth Violence frontline team works from 29 to 33.
Home Secretary Theresa May said: "Serious youth violence has a devastating impact on communities and needs to be stopped.
"We need to change the life-stories of the young people who too often end up dead or seriously injured on our streets or are sucked into a life of violence and crime.
"This package of support will help police protect communities as well as boost the innovative work being done at a local level by charities and voluntary groups to provide vulnerable youngsters with a way out."
The Home Office has already committed £18m to help police, local agencies and the voluntary sector tackle gangs and youth crime in 2013.
Gang involvement and knife crime are commonly linked to social deprivation and poor upbringing.
Figures from the Metropolitan Police show that as many as 60% of knife crime attacks are gang-related.
Home Office Minister Jeremy Browne told Sky News: "The consequences of knife crime are often devastating and when knife crime does take place it rightly worries people a huge amount. There is a clear link between knife crime and gang membership."
Yet critics of the government's approach suggest that until the London riots of 2011 too much emphasis had been placed on criminal justice, and how courts would deal with offenders after crimes had been committed.
The government's Ending Gang and Youth Violence report, published in November 2011, suggested far greater emphasis on utilising the experience of the voluntary sector.
But one youth worker and former gang member, Sheldon Thomas, told Sky that the sums of money being discussed were too small to have any real effect.
He said: "There are many deprived communities up and down this country that are in need of sufficient resources.
"Those resources are being shipped out into foreign wars... to the normal Joe Public I don't think they matter. I think what matters is what's happening next door."
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