Name: Child Criminal Exploitation & County Lines
Start: 2026-06-23T09:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-23T16:30:00+01:00
Location: Deepdale

Child Criminal Exploitation & County Lines

A free training day for community groups and organisations who want to understand the issues of child criminal exploitation and county lines
About this Event

Taking place at Preston North End Football Club, in the Invincibles Lounge

This training day has been funded by the Police & Crime Commissioner for Lancashire ’s Community Safety Partnership Fund with an aim to strengthen community safeguarding by improving knowledge, confidence and clarity regarding:

Understanding child criminal exploitation & county lines
Understanding child financial exploitation
Identifying signs and indicators of child exploitation and abuse
Identifying vulnerabilities of children and young people
Recognising the grooming process and exploitation tactics
Understanding illegal financial activity and money laundering
Improving early identification, intervention, disruption and reporting
Building trust and confidence between communities and policing
Gaining knowledge of SafeCall and support from Missing People

A Toolkit Resource pack and safeguarding zines will be available for each participant

The training is delivered by No Whispers Community Interest Company in partnership with Chief Inspector Helen Bevan, Preston Local Policing & Partnerships, PC Ceri Blakeley NWROCU Regional Fraud Prevent Co-ordinator and Sarah Howley & Lee Cromwell from the Missing People’s Child Criminal Exploitation Support Service.

Lunch and light refreshments will be provided and an opportunity for networking.

Any dietary requirements, please let us know.

No Whispers Community Interest Company deliver training and awareness in child sexual exploitation, child criminal exploitation, county lines and safeguarding.

For more information contact Karen Livesey:

[email protected]