Useful Links - www.bespaceaware.co.uk

Professionals and parents encountering County Lines may find the links below useful as a starting point:

Home Office

HO County Lines Disruption Toolkit - April 2019

HO County Lines Guidance Sept2018

HO County Lines Poster - Preventing vulnerable people from exploitation

MOPAC - Mayor's Office for Police & Crime

MOPAC Crime Plan 2017-2021

Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner

Sara Thornton - new (second) Anti-Slavery Commissioner Announced - Feb 2019

Office of Children's Commissioner:

Vulnerability Report - July 2017

All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Runaway and Missing Children and Adults

APPG on Runaway and Missing - Children and Adults - March 2017

National Crime Agency (NCA)

2018 Summary - Published March 2019

Intel assessment - County Lines Drug Supply, Vulnerability & Harm - Jan 2019

National Referral Mechanism (NRM)

NRM Potential Adult Victim Guidance

NRM Guidance for Child First Responders

Child NRM Form - See page 7 for Indicators

National Referral Mechanism Statistics UK, Quarter 3 2019 – July to September

Modern Slavery Act

Modern Slavery Act 2015 - Enactment

Modern Slavery - Overview

Charities & Others:

Contextual Safeguarding Network

What is Contextual Safeguarding?

Dr Carlene Firmin - TEDx Talk (Recommended)

Missing people

APPG Runaway and Missing - Children & Adults

"All of us were broken", an exploratory study on the experiences of family members whose children have been criminally exploited and been frequently missing, showing that families are being failed, forgotten and ignored by services.

July 2019

Children’s Society

'County lines' - Drugs: how children and young people are forced to sell them

What is County Lines?

Rhiannon Sawyer discusses County Lines - MyPOV - Recommended

St Giles Trust