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Would you recognise county lines exploitation? Creative commons Icon
Society, Politics & Law

Would you recognise county lines exploitation?

Would you know if you've been forced to commit a crime? Watch a short animation and ask yourself if the main character should realise that they're being threatened by a gang...The National Crime Agency explains that ‘County Lines is where illegal drugs are transported from one area to another… usually by children or vulnerable people who are coerced into it by gangs.’...
Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs Creative commons Icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is my child being exploited? How to spot the signs

...exploitation in this short animation and article...Find out more about The Open University’s Social work qualifications. Transcript Child criminal exploitation takes a variety of forms and there is confusion about what it encompasses – for instance, does it include children as well as young people? In short, it does, because in law children are defined as all those...
Sara de Jong
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Sara de Jong

Sara de Jong is Research Fellow of the Research Area Citizenship and Governance, and co-lead of the research stream 'Justice, Borders, Rights'. She is currently Guest Professor at the Göttingen University Diversity Research Institute.
Jerome De Henau
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Jerome De Henau

Jerome is a socio-economist, with research interests in economics of gender, labour and household economics, fiscal and social policy. Recently PI in a project for the Women's Budget Group, funded by ITUC (International Trade Union Confederation) on Investing in the Care Economy. Also involved in a project co-funded by FEPS (Foundation for European Progressive Studies) on Beyond austerity, towards employment: a gender aware framework....
Eloise de Carvalho
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Eloise de Carvalho

I am a trainee educational psychologist (DEdPsy student) at the University of Bristol. I work on placement in a local authority educational psychology service for three days a week and undertake research on the other two days.  My thesis research is exploring how parents come to decide to deregister their children from school to enter into elective home education. To view my LinkedIn profile, click here.