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COUNTY LINES (C)CE is
<<TRAFFICKING & SLAVERY>>
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Contentious For Telling It As It Is.
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<<TRAFFICKING & SLAVERY>>
Safeguard Not Fakeguard
|SME |Campaigner |+veDisruptor |
Contentious For Telling It As It Is.
www.bespaceaware.co.uk
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@countylinescce.bsky.social
· Jul 15
UK response to county lines an ‘appalling failure’
Children across the UK are used to sell drugs, and the state appears more interested in arresting them than helping
www.opendemocracy.net
'They may say that county lines is a priority, but what they mean is that the crime is a priority – not the slavery.'
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
They're not suddenly 'turned around' because 'missing episodes have stopped & they are back in education'.
What is viewed/sold as 'progress' is merely a snapshot in time. #WatchTilTheEnd
What is viewed/sold as 'progress' is merely a snapshot in time. #WatchTilTheEnd
a man in a suit and tie is saying then what happened
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is saying then what happened
media.tenor.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
They're not suddenly 'turned around' because 'missing episodes have stopped & they are back in education'.
What is viewed/sold as 'progress' is merely a snapshot in time. #WatchTilTheEnd
What is viewed/sold as 'progress' is merely a snapshot in time. #WatchTilTheEnd
Weird seeing so many, including those who (follow yet) never supported our work, stayed silent on #CountylinesCCE victims being failed & jailed, fatally harmed, now suddenly echo what we've long shouted about.
a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and saying you don 't say ?
Alt: a man in a suit and tie is making a funny face and saying you don 't say ?
media.tenor.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Weird seeing so many, including those who (follow yet) never supported our work, stayed silent on #CountylinesCCE victims being failed & jailed, fatally harmed, now suddenly echo what we've long shouted about.
📣 #Countylines victims aren't in any way 'rescued' from their slave masters, nor 'safeguarded' from fatal harm, particularly IF THEIR DEBT-BONDAGE IS LEFT UNTACKLED.
October 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
📣 #Countylines victims aren't in any way 'rescued' from their slave masters, nor 'safeguarded' from fatal harm, particularly IF THEIR DEBT-BONDAGE IS LEFT UNTACKLED.
(Brit)Boys=UK's most common modern slavery victims+too busy being trafficked domestically
+debt-bondaged to enjoy📚
Scale far higher than estimated as CCE boys viewed as dealers vs. trafficked victims,contrary to #MSA2015
Failed
Jailed
Dead
Educ irrelev if #RIPby16
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
+debt-bondaged to enjoy📚
Scale far higher than estimated as CCE boys viewed as dealers vs. trafficked victims,contrary to #MSA2015
Failed
Jailed
Dead
Educ irrelev if #RIPby16
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
Quarter of white working-class boys never read outside school
Their parents are more likely to feel disillusioned with the education system, according to a survey
www.thetimes.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
(Brit)Boys=UK's most common modern slavery victims+too busy being trafficked domestically
+debt-bondaged to enjoy📚
Scale far higher than estimated as CCE boys viewed as dealers vs. trafficked victims,contrary to #MSA2015
Failed
Jailed
Dead
Educ irrelev if #RIPby16
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
+debt-bondaged to enjoy📚
Scale far higher than estimated as CCE boys viewed as dealers vs. trafficked victims,contrary to #MSA2015
Failed
Jailed
Dead
Educ irrelev if #RIPby16
www.thetimes.com/uk/education...
What a surprise
Home Sec got in
" #knifecrime & #VAWG " in her speech today, but CCE not worthy of mention
It's only
✔A key driver of knife crime
✔UK's most common child slavery, making Brits [mostly *boys*]🔝Modern Slavery victims in the UK
Unimportant
Ignored
Every time
Home Sec got in
" #knifecrime & #VAWG " in her speech today, but CCE not worthy of mention
It's only
✔A key driver of knife crime
✔UK's most common child slavery, making Brits [mostly *boys*]🔝Modern Slavery victims in the UK
Unimportant
Ignored
Every time
September 29, 2025 at 7:38 PM
What a surprise
Home Sec got in
" #knifecrime & #VAWG " in her speech today, but CCE not worthy of mention
It's only
✔A key driver of knife crime
✔UK's most common child slavery, making Brits [mostly *boys*]🔝Modern Slavery victims in the UK
Unimportant
Ignored
Every time
Home Sec got in
" #knifecrime & #VAWG " in her speech today, but CCE not worthy of mention
It's only
✔A key driver of knife crime
✔UK's most common child slavery, making Brits [mostly *boys*]🔝Modern Slavery victims in the UK
Unimportant
Ignored
Every time
💔🕊Tamzin’s mother, a fmr adult social care worker fm Wellington,Somerset,says she has been left with many unanswered Qs over her daughter’s death,criticising the police, social care & health trusts for how Tamzin had been cared for & treated since her early teens'
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
September 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
💔🕊Tamzin’s mother, a fmr adult social care worker fm Wellington,Somerset,says she has been left with many unanswered Qs over her daughter’s death,criticising the police, social care & health trusts for how Tamzin had been cared for & treated since her early teens'
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Reality carefully re-written to minimise foul-play, hand-wringing fake apologies, & media interest when some CCE deaths occur.
Yet when trafficked children's trajectories predict fatality & families scream for help, everybody hears & nobody is interested. Not MPs, authorities, or media.
Yet when trafficked children's trajectories predict fatality & families scream for help, everybody hears & nobody is interested. Not MPs, authorities, or media.
September 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Reality carefully re-written to minimise foul-play, hand-wringing fake apologies, & media interest when some CCE deaths occur.
Yet when trafficked children's trajectories predict fatality & families scream for help, everybody hears & nobody is interested. Not MPs, authorities, or media.
Yet when trafficked children's trajectories predict fatality & families scream for help, everybody hears & nobody is interested. Not MPs, authorities, or media.
'..ensure there is disruption activity if we know a CH is being exploited'
Great.Except the reality isn't.Some of the most shocking Police/LA responses we've seen are fm Bristol+NRM awareness 0/10
CCE disruption doesn't work.Tackling real traffickers+debt bondage does
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great.Except the reality isn't.Some of the most shocking Police/LA responses we've seen are fm Bristol+NRM awareness 0/10
CCE disruption doesn't work.Tackling real traffickers+debt bondage does
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Three murdered Bristol teen boys 'failed' by system, family says
A new report analyses what went wrong in the lead up to the deaths and how to prevent another loss.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
'..ensure there is disruption activity if we know a CH is being exploited'
Great.Except the reality isn't.Some of the most shocking Police/LA responses we've seen are fm Bristol+NRM awareness 0/10
CCE disruption doesn't work.Tackling real traffickers+debt bondage does
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Great.Except the reality isn't.Some of the most shocking Police/LA responses we've seen are fm Bristol+NRM awareness 0/10
CCE disruption doesn't work.Tackling real traffickers+debt bondage does
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
🗣"Safeguarding & protection doesn't end at 18"
The uncomfortable truth is safeguarding & protection never begins, let alone ends.
If authorities are failing child victims of CCE, despite duties to keep them safe, why would young adult victims fare better post 18?
The uncomfortable truth is safeguarding & protection never begins, let alone ends.
If authorities are failing child victims of CCE, despite duties to keep them safe, why would young adult victims fare better post 18?
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🗣"Safeguarding & protection doesn't end at 18"
The uncomfortable truth is safeguarding & protection never begins, let alone ends.
If authorities are failing child victims of CCE, despite duties to keep them safe, why would young adult victims fare better post 18?
The uncomfortable truth is safeguarding & protection never begins, let alone ends.
If authorities are failing child victims of CCE, despite duties to keep them safe, why would young adult victims fare better post 18?
Reminder:
It's rarely just "kids killing kids".
💡Think CCE💡
It's rarely just "kids killing kids".
💡Think CCE💡
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reminder:
It's rarely just "kids killing kids".
💡Think CCE💡
It's rarely just "kids killing kids".
💡Think CCE💡
It's not
🗣child criminals
+
🗣child terrorists
It's children being manipulated & rewired to commit crime.
🗣child criminals
+
🗣child terrorists
It's children being manipulated & rewired to commit crime.
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
It's not
🗣child criminals
+
🗣child terrorists
It's children being manipulated & rewired to commit crime.
🗣child criminals
+
🗣child terrorists
It's children being manipulated & rewired to commit crime.
Police:
📢 "High Risk Vulnerable Missing Child"
⏩⏩⏩
Police:
📢 "County Lines #Drugdealer/#Lineholder/#Kingpin Jailed"
📢 "High Risk Vulnerable Missing Child"
⏩⏩⏩
Police:
📢 "County Lines #Drugdealer/#Lineholder/#Kingpin Jailed"
September 7, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Police:
📢 "High Risk Vulnerable Missing Child"
⏩⏩⏩
Police:
📢 "County Lines #Drugdealer/#Lineholder/#Kingpin Jailed"
📢 "High Risk Vulnerable Missing Child"
⏩⏩⏩
Police:
📢 "County Lines #Drugdealer/#Lineholder/#Kingpin Jailed"
📢 Modern Slavery: NRM & DtN Stats UK, Q2 2025
(Apr to June)
🚩UK🚩
continues to be the
🚩most common nationality🚩 referred, accounting for 23% (1,286) of all potential victims.
Again, the HIGHEST number of UK nationals referred in a quarter since the NRM began.
1/
(Apr to June)
🚩UK🚩
continues to be the
🚩most common nationality🚩 referred, accounting for 23% (1,286) of all potential victims.
Again, the HIGHEST number of UK nationals referred in a quarter since the NRM began.
1/
August 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
📢 Modern Slavery: NRM & DtN Stats UK, Q2 2025
(Apr to June)
🚩UK🚩
continues to be the
🚩most common nationality🚩 referred, accounting for 23% (1,286) of all potential victims.
Again, the HIGHEST number of UK nationals referred in a quarter since the NRM began.
1/
(Apr to June)
🚩UK🚩
continues to be the
🚩most common nationality🚩 referred, accounting for 23% (1,286) of all potential victims.
Again, the HIGHEST number of UK nationals referred in a quarter since the NRM began.
1/
Common for funded orgs to support CCE families until own gains from so doing run dry.
It's rarely about support.
It's commonly about seeing families as a conduit to more/continuing funding & self-promo.
It's rarely about support.
It's commonly about seeing families as a conduit to more/continuing funding & self-promo.
July 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Common for funded orgs to support CCE families until own gains from so doing run dry.
It's rarely about support.
It's commonly about seeing families as a conduit to more/continuing funding & self-promo.
It's rarely about support.
It's commonly about seeing families as a conduit to more/continuing funding & self-promo.
'They may say that county lines is a priority, but what they mean is that the crime is a priority – not the slavery.'
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
UK response to county lines an ‘appalling failure’
Children across the UK are used to sell drugs, and the state appears more interested in arresting them than helping
www.opendemocracy.net
July 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
'They may say that county lines is a priority, but what they mean is that the crime is a priority – not the slavery.'
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Reposted by SPACE
Here we go. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Brutal the way an exploited kid being talked about as “wanted by police” not missing, made me think of you
Too risky yet not risky enough: the intersecting characteristics, vulnerabilities, harm indicators and guardianship issues associated with seriously harmed missing children
The number of missing child reports exceed police investigative capacity, yet some incidents are linked with harm, making effective risk assessment essential for safeguarding. Police data likely un...
www.tandfonline.com
July 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Here we go. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Brutal the way an exploited kid being talked about as “wanted by police” not missing, made me think of you
Also rescues which aren't rescues at all, as we see in #CountylinesCCE.
Such a sharp and insightful piece on the politics of how victimhood is (mis)used in anti-trafficking.
By @hannahjlewis.bsky.social for @beyondslavery.bsky.social
By @hannahjlewis.bsky.social for @beyondslavery.bsky.social
Could anti-trafficking survive without victims to rescue?
July 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Also rescues which aren't rescues at all, as we see in #CountylinesCCE.
Public told of boys+
📰gangs📰drugs📰debts
📰knifecrime📰violence
But not of being
📰criminally exploited into #Countylines fm early teens📰directed to carry weapons to protect OCG drugs/cash📰trafficked📰debt-bondaged.
Crucial facts omitted, & this isn't to keep boys from OCG harm.
📰gangs📰drugs📰debts
📰knifecrime📰violence
But not of being
📰criminally exploited into #Countylines fm early teens📰directed to carry weapons to protect OCG drugs/cash📰trafficked📰debt-bondaged.
Crucial facts omitted, & this isn't to keep boys from OCG harm.
July 15, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Public told of boys+
📰gangs📰drugs📰debts
📰knifecrime📰violence
But not of being
📰criminally exploited into #Countylines fm early teens📰directed to carry weapons to protect OCG drugs/cash📰trafficked📰debt-bondaged.
Crucial facts omitted, & this isn't to keep boys from OCG harm.
📰gangs📰drugs📰debts
📰knifecrime📰violence
But not of being
📰criminally exploited into #Countylines fm early teens📰directed to carry weapons to protect OCG drugs/cash📰trafficked📰debt-bondaged.
Crucial facts omitted, & this isn't to keep boys from OCG harm.
CSPRs a costly, pointless exercise; no lessons ever learned & parents failed post child death too.
Bring in a
➡️CCE parent/carer advocate
➡️A review into reviews bc
what's increasingly being reported is shocking & needs to be exposed.
CSPR system has 0 credibility.
Bring in a
➡️CCE parent/carer advocate
➡️A review into reviews bc
what's increasingly being reported is shocking & needs to be exposed.
CSPR system has 0 credibility.
July 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
CSPRs a costly, pointless exercise; no lessons ever learned & parents failed post child death too.
Bring in a
➡️CCE parent/carer advocate
➡️A review into reviews bc
what's increasingly being reported is shocking & needs to be exposed.
CSPR system has 0 credibility.
Bring in a
➡️CCE parent/carer advocate
➡️A review into reviews bc
what's increasingly being reported is shocking & needs to be exposed.
CSPR system has 0 credibility.
Missing is a key indicator of #CountylinesCCE.
As schools close for the long summer break, Countylines-exploited children's missing episodes will rocket.
#CCE Missing = Trafficked, whether miles or steps from home.
✍'What's with all the missing kids?'
www.bespaceaware.co.uk/post/female-...
As schools close for the long summer break, Countylines-exploited children's missing episodes will rocket.
#CCE Missing = Trafficked, whether miles or steps from home.
✍'What's with all the missing kids?'
www.bespaceaware.co.uk/post/female-...
What's with all the missing kids?
May 2021Portions of this blog published by Police Oracle and Catch 22 with permission.Few will have missed the increase in missing appeals for children.Endless faces as we scroll through Social Media....
www.bespaceaware.co.uk
July 13, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Missing is a key indicator of #CountylinesCCE.
As schools close for the long summer break, Countylines-exploited children's missing episodes will rocket.
#CCE Missing = Trafficked, whether miles or steps from home.
✍'What's with all the missing kids?'
www.bespaceaware.co.uk/post/female-...
As schools close for the long summer break, Countylines-exploited children's missing episodes will rocket.
#CCE Missing = Trafficked, whether miles or steps from home.
✍'What's with all the missing kids?'
www.bespaceaware.co.uk/post/female-...
OCGs are choosing children for a reason.
It could easily be yours, as 1000s of parents have found out.
They've also sussed there's no support fm agys in reality, & funded orgs ≠ expertise or effective
So only ↪#DIYsafeguarding from Organised Criminals is left, with prayers & crossed fingers.
It could easily be yours, as 1000s of parents have found out.
They've also sussed there's no support fm agys in reality, & funded orgs ≠ expertise or effective
So only ↪#DIYsafeguarding from Organised Criminals is left, with prayers & crossed fingers.
a purple background with the word facts in the center
Alt: a purple background with the word facts in the center
media.tenor.com
July 13, 2025 at 11:41 AM
OCGs are choosing children for a reason.
It could easily be yours, as 1000s of parents have found out.
They've also sussed there's no support fm agys in reality, & funded orgs ≠ expertise or effective
So only ↪#DIYsafeguarding from Organised Criminals is left, with prayers & crossed fingers.
It could easily be yours, as 1000s of parents have found out.
They've also sussed there's no support fm agys in reality, & funded orgs ≠ expertise or effective
So only ↪#DIYsafeguarding from Organised Criminals is left, with prayers & crossed fingers.
We've banged on about financial exploitation in #CountylinesCCE for 10 yrs
CHILDREN financially blacklisted➕trafficked/criminalised for offences stemming fm their slavery-lives ruined
Nobody gives a damn these victims [boys] are twisted into offenders/scammers/fraudsters to showcase #toughoncrime
CHILDREN financially blacklisted➕trafficked/criminalised for offences stemming fm their slavery-lives ruined
Nobody gives a damn these victims [boys] are twisted into offenders/scammers/fraudsters to showcase #toughoncrime
Children can be in prison with the people who have exploited them. Support from @countylinescce.bsky.social
Children exploited by gangs to launder money ‘happening everyday’ – charity
www.channel4.com/news/childre...
www.channel4.com/news/childre...
July 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We've banged on about financial exploitation in #CountylinesCCE for 10 yrs
CHILDREN financially blacklisted➕trafficked/criminalised for offences stemming fm their slavery-lives ruined
Nobody gives a damn these victims [boys] are twisted into offenders/scammers/fraudsters to showcase #toughoncrime
CHILDREN financially blacklisted➕trafficked/criminalised for offences stemming fm their slavery-lives ruined
Nobody gives a damn these victims [boys] are twisted into offenders/scammers/fraudsters to showcase #toughoncrime
Pls grasp that
🔴coerced
🔴controlled
🔴trafficked
🔴threatened
🔴debt-bondaged CCE victims won't be magically safe or "turned around" no matter how many music studio sessions, outdoor activities or gym memberships you throw at them.
They need safety fm OCGs, not ill-timed opportunities.
🔴coerced
🔴controlled
🔴trafficked
🔴threatened
🔴debt-bondaged CCE victims won't be magically safe or "turned around" no matter how many music studio sessions, outdoor activities or gym memberships you throw at them.
They need safety fm OCGs, not ill-timed opportunities.
July 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Pls grasp that
🔴coerced
🔴controlled
🔴trafficked
🔴threatened
🔴debt-bondaged CCE victims won't be magically safe or "turned around" no matter how many music studio sessions, outdoor activities or gym memberships you throw at them.
They need safety fm OCGs, not ill-timed opportunities.
🔴coerced
🔴controlled
🔴trafficked
🔴threatened
🔴debt-bondaged CCE victims won't be magically safe or "turned around" no matter how many music studio sessions, outdoor activities or gym memberships you throw at them.
They need safety fm OCGs, not ill-timed opportunities.
Endless grim realities shared today vs. sanitised rhetoric on #CountylinesCCE victims & families.
Thank you @lbilli91.bsky.social for recommending/signposting interested parties to us for a meeting.
Poignant day to highlight responses & outcomes with yet another #CSPR #CCE death published today.
Thank you @lbilli91.bsky.social for recommending/signposting interested parties to us for a meeting.
Poignant day to highlight responses & outcomes with yet another #CSPR #CCE death published today.
July 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Endless grim realities shared today vs. sanitised rhetoric on #CountylinesCCE victims & families.
Thank you @lbilli91.bsky.social for recommending/signposting interested parties to us for a meeting.
Poignant day to highlight responses & outcomes with yet another #CSPR #CCE death published today.
Thank you @lbilli91.bsky.social for recommending/signposting interested parties to us for a meeting.
Poignant day to highlight responses & outcomes with yet another #CSPR #CCE death published today.