Ten questions. Take your time, and remember some answers are about what you would do, not just what you know. Name: Score: _____ / 10
1. In "county lines", what does the line refer to?
A) The train line between cities
B) The phone number used to take drug orders
C) The county boundary
D) A queue of customers
2. Why do gangs use young people to move drugs?
A) Young people are faster
B) Young people ask for more money
C) Children attract less police attention and the gang avoids the risk themselves
D) There is no other way to move drugs
3. How does recruitment into county lines usually begin?
A) With threats and violence from day one
B) With gifts, money and friendship
C) With a formal job offer
D) With a letter
4. What is "cuckooing"?
A) A warning call when police are near
B) Taking over a vulnerable person's home to deal drugs from
C) Hiding drugs in birdhouses
D) A type of phone
5. A gang tells a young person they owe money because a package was stolen. What is most likely true?
A) The debt is real and must be worked off
B) The robbery was probably staged to trap them
C) The police will make them pay it
D) Their parents are legally responsible for it
6. How does the law treat a child who was forced to carry drugs for a gang?
A) Exactly the same as the gang leader
B) As a victim of exploitation, with a legal defence under the Modern Slavery Act
C) It depends on how much they were paid
D) They are always sent to prison
7. Which of these could be a warning sign that a friend is being exploited?
A) A second phone they are secretive about
B) Unexplained money or new trainers
C) Going missing and turning up in other towns
D) All of the above
8. Who do county lines gangs target?
A) Only boys
B) Only children from poor families
C) Any young person with a gap in their life the gang can fill, boys and girls, from any background
D) Only children already in trouble with police
9. Someone offers you £50 to take a bag to another town, no questions asked. The safest response is:
A) Take it once, then stop
B) Ask what's in the bag first
C) Refuse and tell a trusted adult what happened
D) Send a younger kid instead
10. A friend admits they are already involved and says it is too late for them. What is true?
A) It is never too late, and telling a trusted adult is what ends it
B) They are right, nothing can be done
C) They should pay off the debt first
D) You should keep the secret to protect them
Answer Key (Teacher Copy)
1. B. The phone line is the business. Customers ring it, children carry for it, and the person controlling it stays far from the risk. 2. C. This is deliberate business strategy, which is why the law treats using children this way as exploitation and trafficking. 3. B. The gift stage. Worth repeating the arc aloud: gift, ask, debt, threat. 4. B. Cuckooing. Vulnerable adults' homes are taken over as local bases, and pupils may know a house like this without knowing the word. 5. B. The staged debt is the trap that keeps children compliant. Naming it as a trick removes much of its power. 6. B. Section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 provides a defence for children compelled to offend as a result of exploitation, and referral into the National Referral Mechanism brings protection, not prosecution. 7. D. Clusters and sharp changes matter more than any single sign. 8. C. Challenge the stereotype directly. Girls are recruited too and are often missed for longer, and comfortable homes do not immunise anyone. 9. C. Refusing and telling protects the pupil and helps protect whoever gets asked next. 10. A. The belief that it is too late is installed by the exploiter. It is never accurate.