Six months after the fatal stabbing of her son Harvey at All Saints Catholic High School in Sheffield, grieving mother Caroline Willgoose has spoken of her ongoing heartbreak and determination to honour his memory. Caroline says she still cannot bring herself to move Harvey’s shoes, clothes or coat, and his bedroom remains largely untouched as a shrine to the 16-year-old, whom she described as “amazing, kind, and cheeky.”
00:00Moving forward after what we've gone through and what we're still going through, there's three things that I want to do.
00:08One of them obviously is the knife arches I want in schools, intimately, because children know that there's knives in schools, children are frightened.
00:19I want people to get behind me and try and make schools safe. I know things get a lot deeper than that.
00:25We need to go into schools and educate them about the devastation that it brings to us, to families, to his family, to the people that were there, the teachers that were there, and just the impact of what knife crime brings.
00:41The other thing that we want to do is we've got some posters that have gone in every single boxing gym with a QR code and it's fearless.
00:51We want them in all schools, libraries, medical centres, shopping centres, and it's for children.
00:57If they're frightened, if they're scared of something, if they know that someone's got a knife in school, in a shopping centre, they can report it to fearless anonymously with this QR code.
01:07And the other thing is Harvey's Hub, as you've seen today, we've done some summer camps for children, where they're here actually today from 10 to 12, doing soccer camps, we're feeding them.
01:19And then from September up, we'll have Harvey's Hub, which is going to be here at Bait and Miners, and it's a youth club where we're going to feed them.
01:27They can come play the music, they can play football, because we've got the fields outside.
01:31In winter, we've got a big area at the other side of the club where they can come and just chill and just be kids and just socialise again, like they lost a lot of their childhood socialising, being locked up through COVID, which were a big chunk out of our Arby's life and out of all these up-and-coming kids now.
01:50So, that's what I want.
01:53The message that I'd give, there's a lot of parents that are against knife arches because they said that it's scary for the children, but the children are already scared and I've already put it out.
02:06Ask your child, if you're in doubt, ask your child if they've known of anybody taking a knife into school, and I think you'll be very interested in their reply to you.
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