As plans to hack £65m off the Children’s Social Care budget, called ‘Families First’, were hatched at the Counts Louse with the help of private sector consultants chasing a £7.5m payday, council boss “Tory” Tony Dyer featured in some University of Bristol PR on youth knife crime.

He gushed:“Bristol City Council and One City Partners are committed to working with young people and their families to make sure Bristol is a safe place where everyone can have opportunities to prosper.”

A ‘commitment’ committed to cutting cash to deal with the issue, then?