What to do when your friend is stabbed: helping pupils to save lives

Teenagers also taught self defence as figures reveal knife crime at 10-year high

Suzanne Palka is in the business of saving lives. In a crowded hall of an east London college, she is demonstrating to teenagers how to stop their friends bleeding to death from a knife wound. “The key message is, if someone is stabbed, you need to apply direct pressure to the wound. It’s very effective. It buys time for the ambulance to get through and it saves lives.”

Palka is a youth education co-ordinator at the British Red Cross and one of a range of experts who have been brought into Newham sixth form college (NewVic) for a day of Life Not Knife workshops designed to educate students on how to protect themselves at a time of growing knife crime. It is the event’s tenth year, but the recent rise in knife crime has given it a new urgency.

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