Big supermarkets still selling knives to children

Trading Standards test purchases found retailers failing to prevent sale of knives to children on 15% of occasions

Children are still buying knives from big UK supermarkets including Tesco and Asda – despite retailers’ recent public pledges to toughen up their sales policies – according to the results of tests carried out by National Trading Standards officers.

It is illegal to sell a knife to anyone under the age of 18, yet the new data shows that of 2,231 official “test purchases” in England and Wales over 12 months to the end of March, retailers failed to prevent the sale of a weapon to a child on 344 separate occasions (15%).

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