‘I strongly advise you to…’
- Dec 9, 2021
- 1 min read
December 2021
County lines: ‘this parent-blaming response does nothing to protect exploited children’.
‘I strongly advise you to…’ followed by ‘wholly ineffective’ suggested parenting strategies is often the professional response to child criminal exploitation, despite theoretical awareness of extra-familial harm, says SPACE.
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This was actually quite an eye-opening post, the tone feels very direct but at the same time it makes you stop and think about how seriously situations like COVID should be taken. I think during the pandemic a lot of people underestimated how quickly things could spread or assumed basic precautions were enough, but over time it became clear that multiple factors like airflow, contact, and behaviour all played a role in transmission . The way this post comes across is almost like a reminder that sometimes people don’t act until they personally feel the impact, which is a bit uncomfortable but also realistic. It’s interesting how advice and awareness kept evolving too, which probably added to the confusion for…