The UK government has, rather shockingly, been using children as spies to infiltrate dangerous organisations such as terror networks and paedophile rings. It has drafted a new proposal to extend the time a child can spend undercover from 1 month to 4: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldsecleg/168/168.pdf …
Details on the exact nature of the spying are, unsurprisingly sparse. But paragraphs like this imply that child spies may be exposed to potentially harmful situations that they might not otherwise face.pic.twitter.com/2flK5lFVUn