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

Home Office

(Updated Sept 2018)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/741194/HOCountyLinesGuidanceSept2018.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/626770/6_3505_HO_Child_exploitation_FINAL_web__2_.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/667310/_County_Lines_preventing_vulnerable_people_from_exploitation_posters_FIN_2_.pdf

MOPAC - Mayor's Office for Police & Crime

https://www.london.gov.uk/mopac-publications/police-and-crime-plan-2017-2021

Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner

http://www.antislaverycommissioner.co.uk/priorities/

Office of Children's Commissioner:

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/publication/childrens-commissioners-report-on-vulnerability/

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

https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/files/PandR/APPG%20Missing,%20Gangs%20and%20Exploitation%20Roundtable%20Report.pdf

National Crime Agency (NCA)

(Updated January 2019)

http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/993-nac-19-095-county-lines-drug-supply-vulnerability-and-harm-2018/file

http://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/publications/832-county-lines-violence-exploitation-and-drug-supply-2017/file

National Referral Mechanism (NRM)

Over 18s:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/human-trafficking-victims-referral-and-assessment-forms/guidance-on-the-national-referral-mechanism-for-potential-adult-victims-of-modern-slavery-england-and-wales

Children:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/510091/NRM_-_guidance_for_child_first_responders_v2.0_EXT.PDF

Child Referral Form (see page 7 for indicators)

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/742979/NRM-child-england-wales.odt

Modern Slavery Act

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/30/contents/enacted

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/modern-slavery-bill

Charities:

Children’s Society

https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/news-and-blogs/our-blog/how-children-and-young-people-are-forced-to-sell-drugs-through-county-lines

https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-is-county-lines

Missing people

https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/about-us/about-the-issue/policy-parliamentary-work/90-missing-children-and-adults/16-all-party-parliamentary-group.html

St Giles Trust

https://www.stgilestrust.org.uk/what-we-do