Ministers this week revealed a cross-cutting plan to tackle the UK's corrosive urban gang culture, following August's riots, with a core focus on early interventions to prevent youngsters from becoming members.
Addressing problem families where children are at risk of drifting into gangs forms a key plank of the broad strategy announced on 1 November. The plan will be jointly led by home secretary Theresa May and work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith.
