Gangs are recruiting younger children to run drugs, with teenagers as young as 13 heading up county lines operations.
Primary school-aged children running drugs for gangs has "become the norm”, with hundreds of thousands of children at risk of serious violence and crime. Children as young as 13 are heading up county lines operations, the former children's commissioner has warned.
So-called “county lines” dealing sees kingpins use smaller and often vulnerable dealers - including children - to ship drugs from cities to towns and rural areas.
