'Chicken shop' drug gangs recruit children with food, inquiry finds

Excluded pupils particularly vulnerable to grooming, youth select committee told

Criminal “chicken shop gangs” are recruiting children to deal drugs with the offer of free food, a parliamentary investigation has found.

So-called chicken shop grooming was described in written evidence submitted to the youth select committee, which is investigating the UK’s knife crime epidemic.

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