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TRAPPED filmed and Resources: Child Criminal Exploitation Through County Lines – County Lines Pathfinder (March 2023)

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Summary

County Lines Pathfinder have shared a resource pack to raise awareness around grooming, risks posed to children who experience exploitation and support professionals to challenge pre-conceptions around child criminal exploitation.

Description

County Lines Pathfinder have shared their film with accompanying resource pack: TRAPPED. The resource aims to highlight the issues of child criminal exploitation through county lines. It was developed by ‘Alter Ego‘, a social change theatre and film production company. TRAPPED is a series of three versions of the same film and two accompanying resource packs using the password; ‘Pathfinder’ (case sensitive).

County Lines Pathfinder have created two separate resources:

  1. For professionals supporting children that are at low or emerging risk of criminal exploitation through county lines.
  2. For professionals working with and for those supporting children at risk of criminal exploitation through county lines

The aim of both resources is:

  • To raise awareness of some of the grooming and manipulation tactics commonly used to criminally exploit children.
  • To consider the risks posed to children who experience exploitation.
  • Through discussion, to challenge some of the preconceptions which surround Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE)