Pre-teen children are being groomed to deal drugs. Are Tory service cuts to blame?
This report from Sky News might not be shocking if you know a few teenagers living near you:
Kids are being used to deal drugs. And some of them are going to be harmed or even killed because of it.
Whether the measures outlined in the report can help prevent this from happening, This Writer cannot predict.
But the fact that funding for children’s services has been cut by 75 per cent since the Conservatives came to power in 2010 is an indictment against Tory government.
Could this situation have been prevented if the Tories had not cut the funding?
Were the Tories told that this was a possible outcome of them doing so?
We already know (from Covid and from their attitude to state benefits) that it’s too much to hope that they would care.
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This is not new. Drug dealing at the school gate and to children has been happening for a long time.
Cutting children’s services, like cutting domestic abuse refuges, is what threatens children health and life.