Everything you need to know about Cuckooing

Have you heard of Cuckooing?

It’s thought to be on the rise across the UK and is the forced taking-over of someone’s home in order to use it as a cover for drugs operations.

Charities are now campaigning for it to become a recognised criminal offence in the forthcoming modern slavery bill.

So why has there been such a rise in the phenomenon? And what’s being done to stop it?

ITV News Presenter Julie Etchingham tells ITV News Presenter Lucrezia Millarini what you need to know...


Produced by Anna Georgevic