The ‘parent workers’ are being made available to parents and carers of children being exploited by county lines drug networks, whereby urban based drug gangs extend their networks into rural areas and small towns.
A key aim of the initiative is to ensure parents and carers are “vital allies” in supporting efforts to help child victims stop being used as drug traffickers and to better understand how gangs exploit young people.
Around four out of ten (42 per cent) parents do not understand the term county lines to describe the use of young people for drug trafficking, according to a Children’s Society survey of 2,000 parents of 10-to 16-year-olds.
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