It doesn't follow that #CCE third sector (particularly big names) bat for CCE victims & families.
Latter can be swifty thrown under the bus to keep £unding flowing.
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It doesn't follow that #CCE third sector (particularly big names) bat for CCE victims & families.
Latter can be swifty thrown under the bus to keep £unding flowing.
BBC News - My son was exploited and killed, but my pleas for help were ignored - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
x.com/i/status/202... comments+why CCE is the poorer cousin of CSE
❌Black boy=no public sympathy
❌CCE is UK's top child slavery & trafficking yet minimised to 'victim of grooming'
❌No mention minors can't consent to CCE
❌Written/body language (inc in 📷)≠consent
❌This response👇is UK NORM
So much appreciation for professionals going out of their way to help #CountylinesCCE parents
👉Conducting research
👉Making enquiries
👉Finding our website
👉Most importantly, accessing our expertise, advice & next steps
Godsends who see child protection fails+act on behalf of parents
Not just organised criminals involved in exploitation.
Presumed #dogooders with their veneer of respectability are at it too.
#ChildExploition
#VictimExploitation #ParentExploitation
European Court challenges UK on Shamima Begum citizenship revocation - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/shamima-begum-uk-citizenship-european-court-human-rights-challenges-uk-government-citizenship-stripping
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
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.
📣 #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.
(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...
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
💔🕊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...
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.
'..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...
🗣"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?
Reminder:
It's rarely just "kids killing kids".
💡Think CCE💡
It's not
🗣child criminals
+
🗣child terrorists
It's children being manipulated & rewired to commit crime.
Police:
📢 "High Risk Vulnerable Missing Child"
⏩⏩⏩
Police:
📢 "County Lines #Drugdealer/#Lineholder/#Kingpin Jailed"
Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British
British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
●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
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
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)
5/
Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British
British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
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
4/
Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British
British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
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
3/
Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British
British boys most at risk of modern slavery in UK
The majority of 🚩UK🚩 nationals referred were CHILDREN,
mostly 🚩boys🚩
at age of referral (77%; 991).
2/
Top nationality of slavery victims in UK: British
📢 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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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.
'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...
Misread - I have indeed read this and shared thoughts when first tweeted by Nic.
Such a spot-on and important piece.
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