Cuckooing: Exploring the links between County Lines and Knowing how to Spot the Signs Masterclass with Nikki Holmes

As part of ACT CIC Working with Gangs & Youth Violence events, this month we will be hosting and discussing Cuckooing. The Masterclass will look at and attendees can expect to learn:

1) Exploring and understanding the links between county lines methods of drug supply and cuckooing

2) Spotting the signs

3) The typologies of cuckooing

4) The harms associated with cuckooing practice

5) Cuckooing: A child protection context

Host Nikki Holmes:

Nikki has served as a police officer, been a service manager for a young persons substance misuse service, is an experienced Children’s Services Inspector for the CQC, and more recently launched her own consultancy Safer Together www.safer-together.co.uk, which is a proud member of the We Protect Global Alliance.

An expert in safeguarding with expertise and extensive experience of working in the fields of Child Exploitation, County Lines and Modern Slavery, Nikki now provides independent consultancy and training to a range of organisations including the NHS and Local Authorities.

Nikki is also a guest lecturer, a public speaker and an independent author of Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews, Safeguarding Adult Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews.