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Location:Online event
Start date:02/12/2025
End date:02/12/2025
Event Organiser:Westminster Insight
More information
Email:[email protected]
Web:https://www.westminsterinsight.com/conferences-and-events/county-lines/
- Chaired by: Steph Roberts-Bibby, Chief Executive, Youth Justice Board
- Detective Superintendent Dan Mitchell, Head of the National County Lines Coordination Centre (NCLCC)
- Lib Peck, Director, London Violence Reduction Unit
- Adam Norton, North West County Lines Coordination Team, North West Regional Organised Crime Unit (NWROCU)
- Detective Superintendent Marie Bulmer, Head of Serious and Organised Crime, West Yorkshire Police
- Clare Bushell, County Lines Task Force, British Transport Police
- Matthew Byng, Policy Manager, Ofcom
- Karen Rose, Head of Early Start, Prevention and Sufficiency, Children’s Services, Barnsley Council
- Faye Smith, Safer Schools Coordinator, Merseyside Police
- Anna Wallace, Commissioning Lead, Bradford SAFE Taskforce
- Matthew Cannon, Acting National Safeguarding Lead, Oasis Community Learning
- Senior Representative, Barnardos
- Abi Billinghurst, CEO, Abianda
- Charlie Cross, Lived Experience Consultant, Abianda
- Dr Chris Devany, ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research, University of York
- Dr Amy Loughery, Research Fellow, School of Law, University of Leeds.
- Understanding evolving threats and progress with the County Lines Policing Strategy 2024-2027
- Reviewing new legal tools from the Crime and Policing Bill targeting Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and cuckooing
- Safeguarding women and girls involved in county lines
- Building trust in youth services and police to enhance community resilience
- The National Referral Mechanism (NRM): identifying at-risk children and working with partner agencies
- Working effectively with schools and youth services to reduce risks of exploitation and school exclusions
- Intelligence sharing to improve referrals, signposting, and safeguarding
- Mitigating online exploitation: spotting, reporting, and responding to new risks, including those posed by AI
- Understanding new methods of online grooming and how to protect vulnerable young people
