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Following the stark investigation of missing Child Trust Funds in The Stealing of Emily – Where Are the 430,000, author and campaigner Martin Newbold returns with a new volume in the series: The Stealing of Emily – Traffic Lights and Trafficked Lives.

Drawing on Newbold’s deep experience writing about child social care, this forthcoming book explores how vulnerable children can be reduced to traffic-light status indicators and data points inside opaque digital systems – and how that culture feeds wider patterns of neglect, disappearance and exploitation.

“There was simply too much material to fit into Where Are the 430,000,” Newbold says. “The current manuscript for Traffic Lights and Trafficked Lives is already at around 200 pages, and it still feels like I’m only scratching the surface of what these systems are doing to children and families.”

The Stealing of Emily – Traffic Lights and Trafficked Lives (ISBN 9781666415988) will expand on the evidence base laid out in the earlier volumes and provide a focused look at the role of local authorities, data platforms and ‘traffic light’ monitoring in the lives of children who are supposed to be protected.

Further publication details and pre-order information will be shared soon.