Hospital admissions for young people with stab wounds down by 33%

THE number of young people admitted to hospital with stab wounds in Nottinghamshire dropped by a third last year, figures show.

- By LAUREN MONAGHAN and ABIGAIL NICHOLSON

Nottinghamshire's Police and Crime Panel met on Monday to discuss the performance of Nottinghamshire Police and other organisations in reducing offending.

Members discussed a spate of violent crimes including three city centre incidents last month - but data in reports only covered incidents in 2024.

On February 23, a teenager was stabbed in the city's Primark store, four days later a machete was found after reports of a fight on Lower Parliament Street, and a 17-year-old boy was injured following a stabbing near Nottingham Castle the following day.

Speaking at the meeting, Natalie Baker-Napier, head of the Violence Reduction Partnership, said: "I want to reassure the panel that those incidences don't indicate a pattern of increasing serious violence."

Hospital admissions for those aged under 25 with a knife or sharp object wound dropped by a third - 33 per cent - from 30 admissions between January 2019 to December 2019 to 20 admissions in the rolling 12 months up to September 2024.