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COUNTY LINES (C)CE is <<TRAFFICKING & SLAVERY>> Safeguard Not Fakeguard |SME |Campaigner |+veDisruptor | Contentious For Telling It As It Is. www.bespaceaware.co.uk
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SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Jul 15
'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...
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
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · 17d
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
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
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · 18d
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
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · 18d
📣 #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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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · 23d
countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · 23d
(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...
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
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Sep 29
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
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Sep 21
💔🕊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...
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Sep 13
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.
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Sep 12
'..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...
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
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Sep 11
🗣"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?
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Sep 11
Reminder:

It's rarely just "kids killing kids".
💡Think CCE💡
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Sep 11
It's not
🗣child criminals
+
🗣child terrorists

It's children being manipulated & rewired to commit crime.
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Sep 7
Police:
📢 "High Risk Vulnerable Missing Child"

⏩⏩⏩

Police:
📢 "County Lines #Drugdealer/#Lineholder/#Kingpin Jailed"
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Aug 19
●Where is the concern?
●Where is the outrage?
●Where is the strategy for trafficked British boys & men?
●Where is the action to safeguard & prevent the destruction & violent deaths of boys & young men?

7/7
www.gov.uk/government/s...
Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Aug 19
Domestic trafficking of UK natls fuelled by #Countylines (mostly boys+becoming adult victims) widespread yet UK+Criml Exploitation absent in top 3 DtN natls/exploitation types.
DtN due when suspected adult victims decline NRM consent but CL victims viewed as consenting crims.

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Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Aug 19
There were
🚩457🚩#countylines flagged
referrals, accounting for
🚩8%🚩 of all referrals received

The majority (76%; 346) of these referrals were for
🚩MALE🚩
children (at age of referral)

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Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Aug 19
As per previous years, ●
CHILDREN were most often referred for
🚩criminal exploitation🚩
(51%; 874).

🚩HIGHEST in a quarter since the NRM began🚩, representing a 2% increase from the previous record in the period from January to March 2025

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Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Aug 19
Overall, of the 5,690 potential victims referred in this quarter, 74% (4,216) 🚩male🚩
26% (1,469) female

Of all children referred
79% (1,364) 🚩male🚩
20% (351) female

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Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Aug 19
The majority of 🚩UK🚩 nationals referred were CHILDREN,
mostly 🚩boys🚩
at age of referral (77%; 991).

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Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Aug 19
📢 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.

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Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Jul 29
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.
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Jul 15
'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...
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
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Jul 15
Misread - I have indeed read this and shared thoughts when first tweeted by Nic.
Such a spot-on and important piece.
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drellac.bsky.social
Dr Ella Cockbain @drellac.bsky.social · Jul 15
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
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countylinescce.bsky.social
SPACE @countylinescce.bsky.social · Jul 15
Thanks Ella, will check it out as hadn't seen it.
Much isn't worth a read but @nicfox.bsky.social will definitely be. She gets it 🎯
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