COUNTY LINES - How Gangs Target Children and How to Protect Yours
Lingua: inglese
Editore: Independently published, 2026
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Codice articolo L0-9798257722349
- Titolo
- COUNTY LINES - How Gangs Target Children and How to Protect Yours
- Autore
- Tex Hennison
- Editore
- Independently published
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2026
- Condizione
- New
- Rilegatura
- PAP
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 13
- 9798257722349
- Peso dell'articolo
- 376 grammi
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION — County Lines: How Gangs Target Children and How to Protect Yours
Every day in the United Kingdom, children are being groomed, exploited, and controlled by county lines drug networks. Some are as young as ten years old. Most of their parents had no idea it was happening, not because they were absent or indifferent, but because the warning signs looked exactly like normal teenage behaviour. Because the grooming was designed to be invisible. Because nobody had ever told them what to look for.
This book changes that.
County Lines: How Gangs Target Children and How to Protect Yours is the definitive parent-focused safeguarding guide to one of the most serious child protection crises of our generation. Written in clear, honest, jargon-free language, it gives every parent, regardless of background, community, or circumstance, the knowledge, the tools, and the confidence to protect their child before exploitation begins, and to respond effectively if it already has.
What You Will Learn
Across 17 chapters and eight parts, this guide takes you from the foundations of county lines exploitation all the way through to recovery and community action:
- Exactly how county lines networks are structured, and why children, not adults, are their deliberate workforce
- The six-stage grooming process, step by step, and how to recognise each stage before it advances
- The specific warning signs across six categories: behavioural, financial, physical, social, digital, and home environment
- Why boys and girls are exploited differently, and why girls are so often completely invisible to safeguarding systems
- How online platforms, gaming networks (PS5, Xbox, Discord, Snapchat), and social media are used to groom children in your home
- What to say, how to say it, and how to have the conversations that feel impossible, including age-appropriate guidance for children from 8 to 17
- How the Modern Slavery Act 2015 protects your child legally, and what to do if they have already been arrested
- How to work with schools, police, children's services, and the National Referral Mechanism
- How to support a child through recovery, and what recovery actually looks like
Written for Every UK Parent — Especially Immigrant and Minority Community Families
This guide speaks directly to the cultural dynamics, silence, shame, family honour, fear of authorities, and the instinct to handle matters privately, that make county lines harder to address in many communities. Whether your roots are in Africa, the Caribbean, South Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, or anywhere else, this book acknowledges the specific pressures of immigrant and diaspora life in the UK and offers culturally grounded guidance that mainstream safeguarding resources rarely provide. Your background is not a barrier to protecting your child.
Packed With Practical Tools
Every chapter includes real case studies, warning sign checklists, step-by-step action guides, and callout boxes designed to be usable in the moment, not just readable in the abstract. The book concludes with a complete Master Warning Signs Checklist, a UK Key Contacts and Helplines directory, a Glossary of Terms, and a full Resources Directory.
The Evidence Is Clear. Awareness Saves Lives.
In the twelve months to July 2025, more than 2,300 county lines drug networks were closed and over 1,120 gang leaders charged, yet tens of thousands of children remain at risk. The single most powerful protection available to any child is an informed, present, and prepared parent. You are holding that protection in your hands right now.
Whether you are reading this as prevention, as a parent with a current concern, or as a family navigating recovery, this book was written for you.
Your child's safety starts here.
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