At the end of our award-winning series on the rise in knife crime among Britain’s young people, we want to thank you for reading and supporting our coverage of this important topic

In the week that Sadiq Khan launched his London Needs You Alive campaign, we met a woman who sees knife-carrying as a form of communication

Update #6: When a child kills another child, it is worth trying to understand both sides of the tragedy

Toll includes death of three males within a day and brings the tally of young people killed by knives this year in the UK to 25

In coming weeks we will be refocusing our attention on the children and teenagers killed by knives in the UK

In our third Beyond the Blade update, we note Scotland Yard’s renewed focus on its anti-knife initiative and ask if we know the true scale of the problem

In our second fortnightly update, Damien Gayle reports on the latest young knife victims, all teenage boys killed in cities

In the first of our fortnightly updates, Gary Younge shares some of your feedback to our project about young people and knife crime in the UK