worrying every time he leaves house because i don't know where he's going, what he's doing, if he's actually going to return home. it's got to the point where i want to take them away and leave. but where do i leave? >> reporter: as parts of the uk exited their first lockdown last summer, knife crimes spiked 25% and hospital admissions for stab wounds also soared. with so much disruption to education and afterschool activities, the fear is that as life gets back to normal, that trend will soon return. former children's commissioner ann longfield says that knife crime is just a symptom of a broader problem with stock inequalities and a powerful gang culture, luring ever young minors, often to deliver drugs. >> you've got ruthless criminals who are looking for young people as a commodity of choice. you have really quite young people who will be targeted, started on the edges of some of this activity but then brought