TRAPPED filmed and Resources: Child Criminal Exploitation Through County Lines – County Lines Pathfinder (March 2023)
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:
- For professionals supporting children that are at low or emerging risk of criminal exploitation through county lines.
- 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)