Experts have warned MPs that the children's safeguarding system needs reform in order to support young people exploited by county lines drug dealing networks. At a Home Affairs select committee ...

Hundreds of county lines operations have been smashed and scores of suspected drug dealers arrested during a nationwide week of intense police action. County Lines are organised criminal networks that ...

A new research report has raised concerns that policing efforts targeting "county lines" drug operations in the U.K. rely on discriminatory assumptions about minority groups and contribute to the ...

Georgina* was still a child when she revealed she had already been in a series of abusive relationships with men connected to county lines activity. She had been raised in an abusive household, where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2015, police outside of London identified a pattern of more frequent arrests of young people and vulnerable adults, implicated ...

Knife-point robberies have plummeted by 15% since June last year in worst-affected areas, encouraging new data shows. Figures from the Home Office show more than 3,000 county lines networks have been ...

Nearly 80 people have been arrested across south Wales during an enhanced week of tackling drug-related crime. The South Wales Police operation came as part of a national "County Lines Intensification ...

This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Children’s guide: ‘Responding to criminal exploitation and county lines’. The full guide explores how county lines operate, ...