lindsay dalton, thank you- _ own right. lindsay dalton, thank you. thank - own right. another— thank you. thank you. we speak to another mother _ thank you. thank you. we speak to another mother speaking - to another mother speaking anonymously. she had herfamily were forced to move away from their home to escape the gangs, but, as we are going to find out, it was far from perfect solution. out, it was far from perfect solution-— out, it was far from perfect solution. we had to leave a rivate solution. we had to leave a private rented _ solution. we had to leave a private rented property - solution. we had to leave aj private rented property due solution. we had to leave a i private rented property due to benefit cuts due to the benefit gap and we ended up being moved into a very, very rough area in the town. he had to go to a new school. which is in the middle of two different gangs. and he — a friend of his got stabbed while we were there and because his friend used to be in a gang they associated him with the gang and then they started to put — he was then just asso

lindsay dalton, thank you. thank you.w, again speaking anonymously. now, she and herfamily were forced to move away from their home to escape the gangs, but, as we're going to find out, it was far from perfect solution. we had to leave a rented — private rented property due to benefit cuts, due to the benefit gap, and we ended up being moved into a very, very rough area in the town. he had to go to a new school, which is in the middle of two different gangs. and he — a friend of his got stabbed while we were there, and because his friend used to be in a gang, they associated him with the gang and then they sort of put — he was then just associated with it, so they want to stab him as well. he were preteen at the time. and i think hejust — he knew then that he had to make the choice of being on his own orjoining the gang for protection. i noticed his friends got a lot older. he's always gone around with older lads, because he's always been mature, but this was dramatically older. it were difficult to know where he was, kee

lindsay dalton is the ceo of the charity pace, parents against child exploitation. today and might thinkhat couldn't happen to them, what do you say? it could, unfortunately. our work at pace sees families affected by exploitation coming from every community and every background. so, how do you break that cycle? how do you stop kids becoming coerced by the drug gangs? it needs a multifaceted approach, and part of that needs a national strategy that looks at the laws that are needed to bring charges to those that are responsible for these crimes. that specifically make an offence of child criminal exploitation and the subsequent harms that come from that. so you say the law needs to change. how does the law need to change? currently we are seeing it tacked on to other laws, drug laws and the fact that the exploitation may be a aggravating feature, what we need to see is child criminal exploitation is made a law within itself. and the subsequent harms, so for instance, concealment of drugs is a real issue and real factor that we see in county lines. by concealment we mean people are forcin