Mark Brindley, whose son James was fatally stabbed in the heart near his home in Aldridge in 2017, welcomed the move.
“It’s shocking but it’s not surprising. Knives are prevalent particularly in areas of high poverty and deprivation and we’re finding that across the country, not just in the West Midlands,” he said.
“Any knife in a bin that’s been properly designed is going to help, but it has to be part of wider measures and those wider measures have to be education, not just of young people but of parents as well and communities.”
Brindley set up the James Brindley Foundation in memory of his son and to address youth violence.
“We are in a position as a family where we have accepted what has happened, but we’ll never accept why it happened, and we won’t rest until we’ve made our contribution into turning this scourge of society around,” he said.