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@bespaceaware

3 months

IMPORTANT Our position statement on a competition currently running on County Lines.

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SPACE

@bespaceaware

3 years

🚩30 teens dead in London in a year ⚠️All boys. ⚠️2.5 deaths in each month. ⚠️An entire school class, gone. Where is the bloody outrage? Where is the strategy for boys?

PA Media

@PA

3 years

The Metropolitan Police said that a 16-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in Hillingdon, west London, making him the 30th teenage homicide in the capital in 2021, surpassing a peak of 29 in 2008

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@bespaceaware

1 year

💔 💔 💔 Today one of our YP lies in a coma having sustained life-threatening injuries from a suicide attempt. Agency failures will out, but for now, please pray for a miracle for the YP & devastated family. 🙏 🙏 🙏

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@bespaceaware

9 months

Good lord!🤯🥳 @PeterStefanovi2 shows his support 3 hours ago & so much has changed for us in those hours.🙏 Let's go! At last! Why did it take someone outside the #Child #CCE #Slavery sector to make this happen for trafficked children?

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

9 months

Thank you @bespaceaware for the vital work you do in highlighting the prevalence of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) & the County Lines phenomenon which is trafficking thousands of children & young people into serious violence & organised crime

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@bespaceaware

3 years

@nazirafzal @Wincrotty1 (UK MS Statutory Guidance:) Children aren't able to give informed consent to engage in criminal or other exploitative activity, & cannot consent to own abuse/trafficking.

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Congrats to all!🥳 Honoured humbled & thrilled w. this award & recognition, more so as a newcomer of some 2 yrs, w. a simple aim:put #CCE on the map for all, thro privilege of utilising prof & personal insight to influence natl #CCE resp & advocate for those affected. Thank you🙏

NWG Network

@NatWorGroup

4 years

Congratulations to the 2020 Unsung Hero Finalists and Winners

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@bespaceaware

4 years

I wish I could hand-pick a team of all the passionate, genuine safeguarders I know around the country to solely deal with our CCE & CSE victims. What a difference we'd see.

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@bespaceaware

9 months

It is & excellent to see @PeterStefanovi2 pick it up, enabling more people to realise how shocking it is.

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

9 months

THIS IS SHOCKING Imagine a country where a man has spent 18 years in jail for trying to steal a coat or imprisoned for 11 yrs for stealing a mobile phone - sentences described by the UN as egregious miscarriages of justice it’s unthinkable & it’s happening in this country NOW

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@bespaceaware

3 years

🥳New website now live🥳 Fresh new look & layout! 📢Take a browse for all things Countylines, (C)CE & Trafficking/MS. 📢'Useful Links' page is now categorised into👇for ease: 📂SPACE Resources 📂External Res 📂Mod Slavery & NRM 📂CSPRs 📂Reports 📂Media

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Exploitation of children for criminal or sexual purposes is 🚩Child Abuse 🚩Modern Slavery. That's not our take. That's a fact. ❌Too many commentators seem to struggle with this. ❌Personal opinion is irrelevant.

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@bespaceaware

1 year

Both rife - but too many children are being #excluded for behaviours & incidents directly linked to their exploitation - whilst failing to be recognised as Countylines-CCE victims. This is neither "keeping children safe in education" nor "working together to safeguard children".

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Huge🙏to @HumanTraffFdn for their keen interest in co-hosting with us, & to all speakers. Aim - Bring to wider audiences key insights/discussions with those making valid, influential & compelling contributions for victims of CCE/CL. Don't miss this⭐event.

Online forum: Child criminal exploitation and county lines

Join us to discuss the challenges and responses to child criminal exploitation

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Pleased to have provided a steer on the #Countylines #CCE part of this @STOPTHETRAFFIK campaign to help UK parents/carers recognise & understand child exploitation. Lots of key msgs in just over 1 min. Too many remain unaware of this harm. Please RT/share & raise awareness.

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@bespaceaware

2 years

Honoured & so so proud to share 'Parallel Worlds' as a collaboration w. the legend that is @SteveCroshaw . The music couldn't be more fitting & the essence of our words more perfectly captured. Food for thought through a brief glimpse into the minds of #Countylines -enslaved YP.

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@bespaceaware

9 months

🥳Thank YOU @PeterStefanovi2 - for picking up on our campaign & lending your support. Our work gets unbelievable reach with your RTs & you've no idea what difference that makes to trapped children & families across the UK. 🙏 💙🙏

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

9 months

Thank you @bespaceaware for the vital work you do in highlighting the prevalence of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) & the County Lines phenomenon which is trafficking thousands of children & young people into serious violence & organised crime

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@bespaceaware

4 years

1/11 Soul-destroying SCR.Yet another CCE victim/death desp presence of🚩 'A boy found dead in his bedroom was groomed into a world of drug trafficking & "failed" by the auths' J,16, had been targeted by.."CL" gangs fr July 17 until his death in April 19'

Oxfordshire boy groomed by gangs 'failed' by authorities

Jacob, 16, was found dead in his bedroom in Oxfordshire after being groomed into drug trafficking.

www.bbc.com

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@bespaceaware

7 months

We're unfunded/indep & challenge the natl resp to Child Criml Exploitn propping up #CountyLines i.e. org crims recruiting/trafficking 1000s of UK CH⏩failed by auths/ wrongly crimnld/seriously (fatally) harmed 📢UK:victims+truth-tellers go to prison or die

SPACE | Parents & SPACE Steps | Guidance & assistance for parents | CCE & Countylines

SPACE - Stop & prevent adolescent criminal exploitation - Parents & SPACE Steps - Guidance & assistance for parents affected by County Lines expolitation. Visit bespaceaware.co.uk for details of...

www.bespaceaware.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

8 months

@PeterStefanovi2 has played a blinder in getting behind this campaign but why didn't more people with similar influence/platform speak up? Just shows what can happen when good people listen, & do good things.

Faith Spear FRSA

@fmspear

8 months

This short video Peter Stefanovic put out on social media (X) has been viewed over 1.8M times. This is astonishing and shows the public reaction of shock, outrage, and disbelief. @PeterStefanovi2

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@bespaceaware

1 year

📣 #UPDATE So happy to share YP is out of a coma🙏 Long road ahead bt for now, a tribute to a family who has kept trudging desp being left #ontheirknees #broken #penniless #abandoned #blocked #failed by local stat servs. "X is a miracle & safest in years. 🙏all for +ve wishes."

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@bespaceaware

1 year

💔 💔 💔 Today one of our YP lies in a coma having sustained life-threatening injuries from a suicide attempt. Agency failures will out, but for now, please pray for a miracle for the YP & devastated family. 🙏 🙏 🙏

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@bespaceaware

9 months

Thank you to @dellahorseynana & @sonyajonesshrop for bringing our work to attn of the incredibly kind human that is @PeterStefanovi2 - a rarity using his position for #good . Shows what supporters can do with #justatweet 💙🙏

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@bespaceaware

9 months

So this is what happens when @PeterStefanovi2 RTs a tweet. Today has been the best day for SPACE since we launched. Our breakthrough might finally be in sight bc someone finally listened. 🙏💙

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@bespaceaware

3 years

We don't seek followers/support as this is not how we wish to operate. H/ever, it appears our tweets are read by some imp 👀 hence this small req. If you support our tweets but don't normally hit 🤍 - could you, if able? We have lots of invisible support but need it to show.🙏

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@bespaceaware

8 months

Thanks @PeterStefanovi2 💙 Your support & 🔦 on our mission for change - to elicit effective child protection, not child criminalisation & child deaths - is like no other in 6 years of campaigning.

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

8 months

Thank you @bespaceaware for the vital work you are doing in highlighting the prevalence of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) & the County Lines phenomenon which is trafficking thousands of children & young people into serious violence & organised crime

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@bespaceaware

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11 Nov (a month today) our mentions went 📈 bc @PeterStefanovi2 shared our tweet. Still gobsmacked at the support he elicits fm such loyal followers. Imagine having a platform, power & influence & using it to do so much good for so many. WHY thou is he a rarity? #BeMorePeter 💙

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@bespaceaware

6 years

A clip from two nights ago. No "fam" in sight, just Police & paramedics tending to another stabbing victim. Victims who often owe their lives to them, who will get unconditional comfort from them, or a hand to hold as they tragically slip away forever. #Policearenottheenemy

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@bespaceaware

1 year

🥳News just in🥳 We've finally been funded! After 5 yrs of doing what nobody would dream of, let alone for £0! We'll now stop tweeting #CountylinesCCE realities! We'll sanitise our msgs! We'll tone down our criticism of those failing victims & fams! We'll shaf victims & fams!

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@bespaceaware

3 years

After a big push by many of our supporters to do so,here it is (blurb to be edited asap to provide necessary background & detail). Not comfortable to go down this route or say this but please donate if able, to continue our free work & Stop & Prevent C.E🙏

Donate to prevent/identify/safeguard/support UK Countylines criminally exploited young people &...

Weʼre raising money to prevent/identify/safeguard/support UK Countylines criminally exploited young people & campaign for equality/equity for Brit Slavery victims. Support this JustGiving Crowdfund...

www.justgiving.com

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@bespaceaware

1 year

📣Clearly a much-needed reminder: 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ It's not "Children🚩INVOLVED🚩 in Countylines". It's "Children🚩EXPLOITED🚩 into Countylines". 〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️〰️ 📣 Minors can't consent.

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@bespaceaware

5 years

Organising a #CCE #CountyLines / #Exploitation / #ModernSlavery / #Contextualsafeguarding / #Trauma event? SPACE can contribute with a unique perspective of law-enf & lived insight of impact, detailed indicators, professional gaps, best practice methods, & more, to tackle #Countylines .

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Imagine the difference if these words were swapped by🚨/media ❌Drugdealer✅Victim ❌Travelled✅Trafficked ❌Plugged✅Sexually Exploited ❌Possessed✅Compelled ❌Lifestyle✅Slavery ❌Choice✅Exploited ▪️Public would pay attn ▪️Parents would be accurately informed & fight harder.

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Shocked to see SPACE here! Had no idea but truly humbled to be on this list with others doing fantastic work. Thank you for the nomination 🙏 & good luck to all🤞 @NatWorGroup - Grateful if org name can be corrected to SPACE as @bespaceaware is our twitterhandle.

NWG Network

@NatWorGroup

4 years

The nominations for the 2020 Child Exploitation Unsung Hero Awards are out! Congratulations to all those who have been nominated View the list at

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@bespaceaware

8 months

We're a self-funded org founded in 2018 in response to the natl prevalence of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) propping up County Lines, trafficking 1000s of children into org crime & left at risk of serious violence 📢Any child is at risk of #Countylines

SPACE | Primary Mission | Awareness & Education | CCE & Countylines

SPACE - Stop & prevent adolescent criminal exploitation. Our primary mission to keep all children and young people safe from serious criminal, violent and emotional harm. visit bespaceaware.co.uk for...

www.bespaceaware.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Where do you even begin. "I sent them photos of his back & then called🚔who said they'd also gone to the house & like SS they had no worries as the property was ''immaculate''.My resp..so an immaculate house doesn't constitute child abuse then?'' #RIPArthur

The FOUR missed chances to save little Arthur

Arthur's maternal grandmother Madelaine Halcrow told MailOnline: 'Arthur was let down by social services and the West Midlands Police.'

www.dailymail.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

1 year

TW Children fearing the s**t will be cut/burned/beaten out of them by their exploiters, their home marked & their family harmed, DO NOT give a f**k abt teachers, SWs, cops losing their patience & threatening exclusion, secure or criminalisation. Nor would you in their shoes.

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@bespaceaware

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We are a self-funded organisation founded in 2018 in response to the national prevalence of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) & the County Lines phenomenon which is trafficking thousands of children & young people into serious violence & organised crime.

SPACE | Stop & Prevent Adolescent Criminal Exploitation | Countylines

SPACE - Stop & Prevent Adolescent Criminal Exploitation. SPACE is a self funded organisation founded in January 2018, in response to the national prevalence of child criminal exploitation (CCE) & the...

www.bespaceaware.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

8 months

Thank you @PeterStefanovi2 Your support through amplifying important campaigns is simply priceless. Thank you for being the national treasure campaigners like us desperately need.🙏

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

8 months

Thank you @bespaceaware for the vital work you do in highlighting the prevalence of Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) & the County Lines phenomenon which is trafficking thousands of children & young people into serious violence & organised crime

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@bespaceaware

4 years

2020 - Privileged to have endorsed @carlenefirmin 's 'CS-Rewriting The Rules of CP'. 2021 - Delighted to be appreciated for our work & flagged in #Enslaved by @EmilyVEnslaved 🙏 This is a rollercoaster corker w. crucial insight for all working in #ChildExploitation . Get yours!

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@bespaceaware

2 years

NO CHILD makes an informed choice or decision to consent to a deadly trajectory. NO CHILD chooses Countylines Exploitation. National ineffective faffing & tinkering whilst CHILDREN continue to be shafted - despite countless opportunities to intervene.

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Parents who are dealing with the grief & loss of their child who is still alive, #ICU21

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Big shout-out to all the un-identifiable mums on here, dealing & living w. the horrors of #CCE . Mums who go above & beyond to keep their kids safe, & alive, 24/7. Exhausted, isolated, broken, blamed but still trudging thro that unending tunnel for that tiny glimmer of hope #IWD20

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@bespaceaware

4 years

'The youngest age of a dealer was 10.' Are critics going to say a 10 year old is also making a #choice to deal drugs? No surprises whatsoever here. Just more evidence of #CCE #ACE yet no #NationalStrategy

County lines drug dealers posed as key workers - BBC News

Gang leaders urged dealers to vary working hours to be less obvious in lockdown, a report reveals.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Sick of reading #boy #charged & #murder . 📢Loads of these #boys are known to services. 📢Where is the prevention/early intervention? 📢When will we start intervening before #murder ? So we don't get to #murder ? 📢Isn't that the goal for all? Rather than child convictions?

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Absolutely B🌟R 🌟I🌟L🌟L🌟I🌟A🌟N🌟T That this is a cop behind this level of understanding blows me away EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

STEPHEN CROSHAW

@SteveCroshaw

4 years

"Jordan" - A County Lines Film - By PC 1942. #CountyLines #rewired Film to go with "Shawna" - A County Lines Film (Part One). And here's the link to "Jordan" on YouTube:

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@bespaceaware

1 year

A reminder: Protective-factor parents are still being blamed by safeguarders for their child's Countylines exploitation. These children aren't "beyond parental control". They are in perpetrators' control. Yet parents are the punchbag, with no contextual safeguarding in sight.

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Parents who have no photos of their child on their birthdays & Christmas, their school prom or last day of term, a big hole from the age of 12 where 'teens should have been the best years of their lives', #ICU21

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@bespaceaware

1 year

On #April1st we joked we'd been funded so selling our soul. 🥳As fate wld have it,within days we rec'd our largest donation fm a🙏kind soul🙏who sees #countylinescce w. clarity.Not near what we need bt 💯allows us to do many things that lead to big diffs, & reach the imp stuff💪

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@bespaceaware

1 year

🥳News just in🥳 We've finally been funded! After 5 yrs of doing what nobody would dream of, let alone for £0! We'll now stop tweeting #CountylinesCCE realities! We'll sanitise our msgs! We'll tone down our criticism of those failing victims & fams! We'll shaf victims & fams!

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@bespaceaware

2 years

🥳 Wonderful to be shortlisted again, this time in the 'Empowering Survivor Voices' category. 🙏Sincere thanks to whoever took time to nominate us. 🤞Good luck to all finalists!

HumanTraffickingFdn

@HumanTraffFdn

2 years

The shortlist for the Outstanding Contributions Categories has now been published. Congratulations to all our inspiring finalists 🥇 #AntiSlaveryDayAwards2022

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@bespaceaware

2 years

Have followed this devastating case with staggering failings. 12 year girl raped. Perpetrator named. Girl takes her own life bc nothing was done. How on earth are we 'safeguarding' children today?

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@bespaceaware

4 years

"Olders round my area know if you’re looking for a runner..the easiest place to look is PRUs bc kids aren’t doing anything." “A lot of people..in PRUs in cunch now.” '..boys vastly outnumbered girls/.. children w. SEN are partic likely to face exclusion'

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@bespaceaware

11 months

📣 #CountylinesCCE : The imperfect, poor cousin of #childabuse No shock, compassion, outrage Just endless convictions, incarcerations, injuries, deaths inquests & CSPRs 4 yrs on, no MP has stepped up to @AnnCoffey 's shoes to stop this #childabuse Every day we whizz bkwds ⚠️TW⤵️

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@bespaceaware

2 years

📢 NEW 'A Countylines Christmas'🎄 📷 @SangitaMyska 🙏 #EndOfTerm no fun/hope bt fear/dread for CL-enslaved children/fams. 💔CH missing as schs shut 💔TRAFFICKED across the UK 💔Exposed to criminalisation & (fatal) harm 💔Empty🪑at🎅tables,🎁 still wrapped

A Countylines Christmas

December 2022No exciting build-up, no Christmas crescendo,A tightly held child, on the precipice of death.End of term looming, safe haven no more,'I have school', at least some cover .Wish lists and...

www.bespaceaware.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

3 years

🥳We rec'd a grant fr a funder who wasn't bothered abt our anonymity & only interested in the work we deliver rather than our name/address. It's a teeny amount but will make a huge difference as we have so much education on hold until £ came in. Elated to crack on after 4 yrs🙏

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@bespaceaware

8 months

Thanks for sharing our work @PeterStefanovi2 . The reach is unbelievable each time you do, meaning more awareness far & wide on the plight of young people & more affected familes will come açross us🙏.

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

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@bespaceaware

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Emotnl start to a big day for our mission. After yrs of hard graft,tears, 💔setbacks & jumping imposs hoops.. Desp anon,no £unding & no support fm where it shd be a given.. In hours, our natl conf #CLThroLivedLens24 🙏 Supporters, speakers, delegates: let's do this for CCE YP 💙

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@bespaceaware

1 year

BEWARE Countylines-exploited YP are groomed to turn against own parents. Parents who are protective, proactive & present are viewed as #obstructers of CCE. Through the voice of the child, groomers easily manipulate sfguarders to shift their lens fm child to parent. #EasyAsABC

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@bespaceaware

4 years

W. huge thanks to @PC_SteveCroshaw , honoured to share his CL/CCE videos are now on SPACE website under 'useful links'.They align w. our CCE msgs+are a must-watch to aid understanding.This page has high traffic so really pleased the videos will benefit many

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@bespaceaware

4 years

By a cop, who actually understands the issue. Put @PC_SteveCroshaw on as a national CL/CCE lead ➡️Victims recognised/safeguarded. Job done✅

Inspector XL

@ConstableXL

4 years

WATCH: For everyone who thinks the kids are feral and get what they deserve for a young life of crime. Just watch this video about the realities of gangs, country lines, violence and exploitation.

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Heart-sinking, hugely disapp article & couldn't disagree more w. most Police comments here. Spot the issues? This strategy does not serve CCE victs & also ignores #MSA15 . There's much work to be done on CCE - these sorts of views/actions spur us on.

No Christmas off for the children selling drugs on Oxford's streets

As you walked through town for your last minute Christmas shopping last week – or as you headed to the Boxing Day sales – you may well have…

www.oxfordmail.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

2 years

Still tweeting even if little to no engagement. It only takes one person to read one tweet & change things for one victim, or to help us change much more for many.

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Imagine outrage & anger over *children* being ❌criminally exploited ❌sexually exploited ❌trafficked ❌raped ❌seriously assaulted ❌murdered Every day, on our streets. Where is the outcry?

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@bespaceaware

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We're unfunded/indep & challenge the natl resp to Child Criml Exploitn propping up #CountyLines i.e. org crims recruiting/trafficking 1000s of UK CH-⏩⏩failed by auths/ wrongly criminalised/seriously (fatally) harmed. 📢 2024 we're going louder & further

SPACE | Primary Mission | Awareness & Education | CCE & Countylines

SPACE - Stop & prevent adolescent criminal exploitation. Our primary mission to keep all children and young people safe from serious criminal, violent and emotional harm. visit bespaceaware.co.uk for...

www.bespaceaware.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

3 years

🥳Elated to be shortlisted w.such fab contributors🙏 to HTF For us, this work is a passion not a job.Our sole motivation in this space is +ve change for UK MS victims who lag way behind in recognition/support. Our win=A win for exploited/groomed/rewired YP. 🤞to all. Vote👇1/2

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@bespaceaware

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We're a self-funded indep org battling the natl prevalence of Child Criminal Exploitation propping up #CountyLines ensnaring/trafficking 1000s of UK CH for org crime & wrongly criminalised/seriously (fatally) harmed UNDER AUTHS' WATCH📢Where's the outrage?

SPACE | Primary Mission | Awareness & Education | CCE & Countylines

SPACE - Stop & prevent adolescent criminal exploitation. Our primary mission to keep all children and young people safe from serious criminal, violent and emotional harm. visit bespaceaware.co.uk for...

www.bespaceaware.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Correct #ShottingIsNotAJob . It's #CCE . 🚩And Birmingham to Gloucester is #ChildTrafficking Hoping this 17yo was subject of a thorough victim assessment & safeguarding. 🚩Enough indicators of concern for #NRM . 🚩Minors cannot consent to own Modern Slavery. #VictimsNotOffenders

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Truth. Children being taken. Returned broken, or dead. #Countylines #CCE

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@bespaceaware

4 months

📢 #MPs #Councillors Trafficked children need yr ears FREE INVITE to our natl event #CLThroLivedLens24 -listen to parents/profs -learn abt the devastation fm #Countylines CHILD CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION & poor response to it -lend support DM/email to attend

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@bespaceaware

2 years

If you're focusing on " #why the "Countylines kid got exploited", you've missed the central issue. We don't ask this when grown adults are scammed every day of the week but we feel it a central question to ask of children?

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@bespaceaware

2 years

Judge to 17 yo: "Sad that you appear to be a victim of these evil criminals. I take into account you've been assessed as a victim of Modern Slavery. What is clear is you made a +ve decision to become involved in this illegal practice." See the issue? 🙈👀🙈👀🙈👀🙈👀🙈👀🙈

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@bespaceaware

5 months

📢 7 weeks to our national conference #CLThroLivedLens24 today! A few words from us as to why you should attend. Get your tickets here⤵️

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@bespaceaware

8 months

We're unfunded/indep & challenge the natl resp to Child Criml Exploitn propping up #CountyLines i.e. org crims recruiting/trafficking 1000s of UK CH-⏩⏩failed by auths/ wrongly criminalised/seriously (fatally) harmed 📢Follow for unsanitised+uncomf'table

SPACE | Parents & SPACE Steps | Guidance & assistance for parents | CCE & Countylines

SPACE - Stop & prevent adolescent criminal exploitation - Parents & SPACE Steps - Guidance & assistance for parents affected by County Lines expolitation. Visit bespaceaware.co.uk for details of...

www.bespaceaware.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

4 years

❄Wishing families battling #CountyLines a🎄of respite fr risk+worry, hope for a better less traumatic year, & safe return of children so🎁don't remain unopened+places at the dinnertable empty. To working 999 followers a safe🎄 To new connections/ptners/ supporters a peaceful🎄❄

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@bespaceaware

5 years

"As part of the grooming process, the gangs will make children mistrust social workers and the police". Key part of #countylines grooming, as it has many benefits.

I see drug gangs grooming vulnerable children every day

The number of 10-17 year olds arrested for intent to supply drugs has gone up by 49 per cent in two years.

metro.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

3 years

4th year of campaigning & a free natl service for parents/profs. 4 years of graft at own expense/in own time,the last of which saw unprecedented demand on our insight/expertise w. almost no paid work. Now at a crossroads on free work but nobody can say we didn't give it 💯 at £0

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@bespaceaware

5 months

HELP STOP CHILD CRIMINAL EXPLOITATION (CCE) NOW! This is THE anti-CCE conference Please share with colleagues & come along & help us end the most common form of child slavery & trafficking in the UK. 📢 #CCENationalStrategyNOW

SPACE

@bespaceaware

5 months

#CLThroLivedLens24

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@bespaceaware

9 months

SPACE resp to the natl prevalence of Child Criml Exploitatn (🚩🔝 form of CH Slavery & Trafficking in UK) in the #CountyLines phenomn trapping 1000s of CH into serious violc+org crime Our prim'y missn is to keep all CH safe fm serious harm/criminlsn/death

SPACE | Primary Mission | Awareness & Education | CCE & Countylines

SPACE - Stop & prevent adolescent criminal exploitation. Our primary mission to keep all children and young people safe from serious criminal, violent and emotional harm. visit bespaceaware.co.uk for...

www.bespaceaware.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

9 months

"Once upon a time, children were ensnared & used by criminals. Large nos were criminalised or died in horrific circumstances before age 18 despite laws in place to protect them. They were seen by auths as making a lifestyle choice to offend" We're decades off telling this story

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@bespaceaware

3 months

😍 #CLThroLivedLens24 feedbk Repeatedly hearing "room full of like-minded people", "started a movement", "day of different, impressive speakers". What's clear is we have a strong community behind us - galvanised, super keen to support, offering ways to help, seeking action NOW.

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@bespaceaware

5 months

📢 BOOKINGS OPEN #CLThroLivedLens24 🎫 Early Bird 20% Discount 🎫 | County Lines: Safeguarders Many, Safeguards None | 🗓 Monday 29 April 📍London 🚩Org email needed to book 🚩Not an easy listen 🚩Booking = T&Cs accepted (pls read fully) Pls share!

County Lines Through Lived Lens: Safeguarders Many - Safeguards None

Parent and Professional Perspectives: When County Lines trafficked children fail to be safeguarded.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

3 years

If Police listened to #ParentsAsPartners , they'd be properly smashing the scourge of #Countylines . Real offenders would be behind bars instead of the current failed victims & alpha-victims.

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Learning to #plug (internally conceal/traffick drugs) is no child's normal right of passage. It's taught by criminals. Given the definition of #CSE 🚩Why isn't the act of #plugging in #Countylines / #CCE recognised as #CSE ? 🚩Why isn't it treated as an offence/perps prosecuted?

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Good mtg with @ukhomeoffice today.Frank but necessary input on several #CCE aspects inc stat-led realities as lived by affected vics/families, barriers & obstacles in (British) vict recognition let alone support, Sec45 defence & huge disparity in MS response. Hopefully productive

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Privileged to be approached by #PoliceOracle to write a piece after speaking at nat'l Police Missing conf.Paywall usually bt made free to allow sharing.Aims to provide food for thought bt not only for Police.'Just a nuisance misper? Or trafficked victim?'

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@bespaceaware

6 months

📢 BOOKINGS OPEN! #CLThroLivedLens24 | County Lines: Safeguarders Many, Safeguards None | 🗓 Fri 22 Mar 📍London 🚩Org email needed to book 🚩This event isn't an easy listen 🚩Booking = T&Cs accepted - Pls read carefully Pls RT/share with colleagues

County Lines Through Lived Lens: Safeguarders Many - Safeguards None

Parent and Professional Perspectives: When County Lines trafficked children fail to be safeguarded.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

2 years

🥳 Some rare/brilliant news! We pitched a very specific proposal to expose/showcase the realities & fallouts for CL victs/fams which aren't reaching the public. The💡became a reality this week. More idc but ecstatic to be advancing #SPACEmission . 🤞Some big strides at last.🙏

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@bespaceaware

9 months

Tweeted less than 30 mins ago & already 10K views after @PeterStefanovi2 RTs. Known nothing like this! 🙏💙

SPACE

@bespaceaware

9 months

SPACE resp to the natl prevalence of Child Criml Exploitatn (🚩🔝 form of CH Slavery & Trafficking in UK) in the #CountyLines phenomn trapping 1000s of CH into serious violc+org crime Our prim'y missn is to keep all CH safe fm serious harm/criminlsn/death

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@bespaceaware

5 years

"People don't talk about girls in county line gangs, we're just hush hush. We're really in the forefront of these businesses because we fly under the radar, which is why girls are being used" File on 4's Lost on the line: CL gangs recruiting girls R4 8pm

'We're here to make money and not get killed' - BBC News

How violent gangs put vulnerable young women and girls at "the forefront" of their business.

www.bbc.com

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@bespaceaware

3 years

📢Anyone out there interested in (part) sponsoring a #Countylines event to move our mission along-to avoid more UK trafficked children/YP being criminalised? We have expertise, insight & evidence but being unfunded due to anon needs/our uncomfortable msging, we elicit 0 support

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@bespaceaware

3 years

📢 Newly published blog📢 🗣 'I Strongly Advise You To..' Our insights on 🆘️Countylines rewiring & the (non) resp to this #extrafamharm which harms not helps 🆘️The absence of #contextualsafeguarding enabling CCE to rocket on whilst parents have to dance the statutory dance.

Community Care

@CommunityCare

3 years

County lines: ‘this parent-blaming response does nothing to protect exploited children’ says @bespaceaware - Community Care

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@bespaceaware

6 months

Delighted with confirmed speakers for SPACE #CLThroLivedLens24 natl conference in London on 22/3 Parents Un-named sector profs @JackieLongc4 @sonyajonesshrop @felicitygerry @jonpayates 🎫Bookings open this wk 🎫Don't miss out 🎫DM for advance booking link 🎫Activate tweet 🛎

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Increasing national interest & requests to get our insight of all things #Countylines , #CCE & #ModernSlavery #Trafficking out online/free, to educate both professionals & parents. Details to follow soon.

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@bespaceaware

4 years

'Some children are treated like “a risk to be managed, not a life to be lived. No child should ever been seen as too complicated to help, or someone that nobody knows what to do with. People in the system have said this to me and I’m not prepared to accept it'

Gracie Díaz

@GracieDaz1

4 years

Care system is failing “Many children are “falling through the gaps +into the clutches of criminals” In other words: ⬇️ “Criminals are actively targeting +exploiting children but police +local council failing to act+fail to protect children” @tonythorne007

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Not knocking the good intentions here bt the title 'Choices' is wholly inapprop/misleading for CCE. It doesn't happen bc children choose it. It happens due to grooming/rewiring. Most crucial of all, minors cannot consent to their own exploitn/abuse/slavery

Police help youngsters steer clear of gang crime

Choices is a hard-hitting book which demonstrates how sometimes even small moments impact lives

www.birminghammail.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

5 years

"If you are managing to get these people in the door/have staff who are welcoming/make it feel like it's somewhere they should be then you start to get people trusting/engaging in a serv & getting the benefits of what that serv can give them" Simple really

Staff training to recognise signs of trauma

Receptionists, pharmacists and housing office workers among staff to be trained in trauma support.

www.bbc.com

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@bespaceaware

10 months

⚖ We've said for years judges & CPS are not s👀ing #ModernSlavery in #Countylines -this is from a barrister nailing what is a common view & misconception amongst judges. For the sceptics, here's a case proving the point referenced in the image ⤵️ 🧵1/5

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@bespaceaware

4 years

One of the worst examples of appalling Modern Slavery understanding. Shocking to see #MSA15 ignored partic in relation to minors & such a serious lack of grip on how CCE/CL is organised/how OCGs keep victs operating. Some of these⬇️quotes are beyond❌.1/7

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Police stand a fighting chance of winning the war on #CountyLines if they can separate the wheat fr the chaff, identify the real enemy & then throw resources at it. The threat is certainly not coming fr the runners/children/victims. #CCE #NationalStrategy

Police call for more help to deal with 'county lines' drug gangs

Despite high profile and successful policing operations, police concede that they can't intercept as many lines as they'd like.

news.sky.com

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@bespaceaware

7 months

Remember whn #girls in #CSE were whittled down to child/mini- #prostitutes ? Well we now have #boys in #CCE whittled down to child/mini- #drugdealers ,ending w. prison or death desp being most common UK child-slavery. Where's the learning? Where's the outrage? Where's the strategy?

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Just in: 🚨🗣I am writing to you as the current Force Lead on Child Criminal Exploitation in xx Constabulary and require your help..' 🎵 to our ears. Inviting us to help = hope for victims/families. Always happy to work w. individuals who want to change the landscape for CCE

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@bespaceaware

3 years

3 years of Countylines, (C)CE, Trafficking & Modern Slavery tweets & insights to aid understanding of victim/family realities. Exhausting & relentless?✅ Essential?✅✅ Here whilst necessary but🎂wish always not to reach next🎂 Thank you to all supporters on the journey so far 🙏

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@bespaceaware

4 years

Why wasn't Child Criminal Exploitation worthy of inclusion as a hidden harm? It's the most common category of Modern Slavery. It's seeing large numbers of children targeted, recruited, groomed, exploited & subjected to trauma, mental & physical harm as well as death. #countylines

Home Office

@ukhomeoffice

4 years

As part of the Hidden Harms Summit we announced a multimillion-pound investment to law enforcement to tackle child sex offenders on the dark web, and develop an action plan to tackle domestic abuse, child sexual exploitation and modern slavery. ➡️

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@bespaceaware

4 years

'The boys aged 16 & 17 have been referred to safeguarding services.' BTP said: "A key aim of our county lines taskforce is to identify & protect vulnerable children used by organised criminals." De-arrested & NRM referred hopefully - not just ref to CS?

Teenagers arrested at Evesham train station on suspicion of drug involvement

TWO teenagers have been arrested at Evesham railway station yesterday [ Feb 1] on suspicion of involvement with drugs.

www.eveshamjournal.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

8 months

We're a self-funded org founded in 2018 in resp to the natl prevalence of Child Criminal Exploitation propping up County Lines which ensnares & trafficks 1000s of CH in org crime, & left criminalised/seriously (fatally) harmed. 📢Worried parent or prof?⤵️

SPACE | Parents & SPACE Steps | Guidance & assistance for parents | CCE & Countylines

SPACE - Stop & prevent adolescent criminal exploitation - Parents & SPACE Steps - Guidance & assistance for parents affected by County Lines expolitation. Visit bespaceaware.co.uk for details of...

www.bespaceaware.co.uk

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@bespaceaware

3 years

Heartfelt thanks to all speakers, attendees & co-host @HumanTraffFdn @Tamara__Barnett today. Aim was to spark debate & hopefully change - judging by the response/feedback I'm hopeful for all exploited children if we keep up the pressure & continue to speak the uncomfortable🙏

SPACE

@bespaceaware

3 years

Uncomfortable truths. Uncomfortable insights. Kicking off at 2pm. Let's go. #Countylines #CCE

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