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 Term

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9798722434654. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 102. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 102 p. Maybe you ve wondered how a shoe is made. Maybe you have an art class assignment you re struggling with. Maybe you re a bored sneakerhead in desperate need of something different. Mike Leavitt is here to the rescue. Corrugated Kix is his long-running series of cardboard shoes he s constructed and exhibited for over 15 years. This book - a detailed Chuck Taylor tutorial - is the first publication of a project started in 2006 that s aimed not only at environmental sustainability and consumer satire. It s a hands-on DIY approach that with a motivational focus on confidence-building throughout the book Leavitt sincerely hopes to impart with this intensive detailing of his cardboard shoe construction process. Over 60 detailed images and 80 pages of instruction illuminate each papercraft cobbling procedure along the way. Whether your interest is art design craft or fashion this is a step by step process sure to lighten your feet.