@doepublic.bsky.social
Personal resonance in the public domain
Public resonance @keyableit
Public resonance @keyableit
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'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...
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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.
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📣 #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.
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(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...
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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
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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
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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.
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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💡
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🗣"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?
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'..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...
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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.
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💔🕊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...
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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"
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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.
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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
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●Criminally exploited
●Abused
●Trafficked
●Malnourished
●Sleep-deprived
●Controlled
●Coerced
●Forced
●Punished
●Humiliated
●Threatened
●Assaulted
●Wounded
●Bleeding
●Burned
●Debt-bondaged
●Traumatised
●Silenced
●Trapped
But sure, "safe & well"
#CountylinesCCE
●Abused
●Trafficked
●Malnourished
●Sleep-deprived
●Controlled
●Coerced
●Forced
●Punished
●Humiliated
●Threatened
●Assaulted
●Wounded
●Bleeding
●Burned
●Debt-bondaged
●Traumatised
●Silenced
●Trapped
But sure, "safe & well"
#CountylinesCCE
March 28, 2025 at 9:09 AM
●Criminally exploited
●Abused
●Trafficked
●Malnourished
●Sleep-deprived
●Controlled
●Coerced
●Forced
●Punished
●Humiliated
●Threatened
●Assaulted
●Wounded
●Bleeding
●Burned
●Debt-bondaged
●Traumatised
●Silenced
●Trapped
But sure, "safe & well"
#CountylinesCCE
●Abused
●Trafficked
●Malnourished
●Sleep-deprived
●Controlled
●Coerced
●Forced
●Punished
●Humiliated
●Threatened
●Assaulted
●Wounded
●Bleeding
●Burned
●Debt-bondaged
●Traumatised
●Silenced
●Trapped
But sure, "safe & well"
#CountylinesCCE
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“There’s a longstanding practice in UK politics to force disabled people to fight for their basic rights – a kind of gladiatorial scrap in which the Colosseum is replaced by the set of Good Morning Britain.”
Today’s col. on the fallout of more ‘welfare reform.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Today’s col. on the fallout of more ‘welfare reform.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash | Frances Ryan
Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“There’s a longstanding practice in UK politics to force disabled people to fight for their basic rights – a kind of gladiatorial scrap in which the Colosseum is replaced by the set of Good Morning Britain.”
Today’s col. on the fallout of more ‘welfare reform.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Today’s col. on the fallout of more ‘welfare reform.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The story is partly about the launch of a new campaign: www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
(I'm involved, but credit goes to the amazing organisations who've made it happen)
(I'm involved, but credit goes to the amazing organisations who've made it happen)
Protect the law for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
The legal rights of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are under threat. We must act now.
www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
July 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The story is partly about the launch of a new campaign: www.saveourchildrensrights.org.uk
(I'm involved, but credit goes to the amazing organisations who've made it happen)
(I'm involved, but credit goes to the amazing organisations who've made it happen)
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Supporters after a twitter absence:
"You're still going!"
😔CCE>still going
😔Failing response>still going
😔Trafficked boys>still going to prison
😔CCE deaths>still filed under drugs, knife crime & lifestyle choices
Nothing has improved for victims; it's shamefully worsened.
"You're still going!"
😔CCE>still going
😔Failing response>still going
😔Trafficked boys>still going to prison
😔CCE deaths>still filed under drugs, knife crime & lifestyle choices
Nothing has improved for victims; it's shamefully worsened.
a man in a tank top and hat is standing on a boat in the water .
ALT: a man in a tank top and hat is standing on a boat in the water .
media.tenor.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Supporters after a twitter absence:
"You're still going!"
😔CCE>still going
😔Failing response>still going
😔Trafficked boys>still going to prison
😔CCE deaths>still filed under drugs, knife crime & lifestyle choices
Nothing has improved for victims; it's shamefully worsened.
"You're still going!"
😔CCE>still going
😔Failing response>still going
😔Trafficked boys>still going to prison
😔CCE deaths>still filed under drugs, knife crime & lifestyle choices
Nothing has improved for victims; it's shamefully worsened.
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🙏 for the opp @drellac.bsky.social
Too much harming victims+fams is clapped+celebrated in name of #progress/ #toughoncrime', benefitting endless parties whilst further shafting the trapped
.
'..arresting trafficked CH..then congrat o/selves for..tough on crime.We’re nt getting even the basics right'
Too much harming victims+fams is clapped+celebrated in name of #progress/ #toughoncrime', benefitting endless parties whilst further shafting the trapped
.
'..arresting trafficked CH..then congrat o/selves for..tough on crime.We’re nt getting even the basics right'
The pipeline from child trafficking to prison or death that SPACE describes is utterly chilling. Exploited children & young people deserve so much better.
Thank you @countylinescce.bsky.social for speaking to us @beyondslavery.bsky.social
Thank you @countylinescce.bsky.social for speaking to us @beyondslavery.bsky.social
County lines and cuckooing: an ‘appalling failure of child protection’
June 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🙏 for the opp @drellac.bsky.social
Too much harming victims+fams is clapped+celebrated in name of #progress/ #toughoncrime', benefitting endless parties whilst further shafting the trapped
.
'..arresting trafficked CH..then congrat o/selves for..tough on crime.We’re nt getting even the basics right'
Too much harming victims+fams is clapped+celebrated in name of #progress/ #toughoncrime', benefitting endless parties whilst further shafting the trapped
.
'..arresting trafficked CH..then congrat o/selves for..tough on crime.We’re nt getting even the basics right'
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Thanks for your genuine efforts to help bring about change in CCE.
There are even fewer I'd trust today, but you'll always be one.
There are even fewer I'd trust today, but you'll always be one.
always.be
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thanks for your genuine efforts to help bring about change in CCE.
There are even fewer I'd trust today, but you'll always be one.
There are even fewer I'd trust today, but you'll always be one.
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Thank you - for trusting us with such an important and painful conversation, and for the tireless work you do.
June 27, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Thank you - for trusting us with such an important and painful conversation, and for the tireless work you do.
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"Unfair to have a disparity w. other victims of crime"?
Rules to suit.
Victims of Child Crim Exploitn i.e. child abuse & UK's most common child slavery,
groomed FOR CRIME, continually re-trafficked FOR CRIME, labelled "persistent offenders" by sfguarders+⚖+📰
-also ineligible.
Make it make sense.
Rules to suit.
Victims of Child Crim Exploitn i.e. child abuse & UK's most common child slavery,
groomed FOR CRIME, continually re-trafficked FOR CRIME, labelled "persistent offenders" by sfguarders+⚖+📰
-also ineligible.
Make it make sense.
June 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"Unfair to have a disparity w. other victims of crime"?
Rules to suit.
Victims of Child Crim Exploitn i.e. child abuse & UK's most common child slavery,
groomed FOR CRIME, continually re-trafficked FOR CRIME, labelled "persistent offenders" by sfguarders+⚖+📰
-also ineligible.
Make it make sense.
Rules to suit.
Victims of Child Crim Exploitn i.e. child abuse & UK's most common child slavery,
groomed FOR CRIME, continually re-trafficked FOR CRIME, labelled "persistent offenders" by sfguarders+⚖+📰
-also ineligible.
Make it make sense.
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'..there remains massive resistance to seeing county lines as 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
June 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
'..there remains massive resistance to seeing county lines as slavery.'
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...