About Us
Why we exist
Why the Internet Watch Foundation exists, what it what set up to do, and how it does it.
How we assess and remove content
The processes IWF use to assess child sexual abuse imagery online and have it removed from the internet.
Who we are
The IWF is made up of a team of over 70 diverse team members working in a variety of disciplines including our team of front-line analysts.
Our latest news
Charity raises alarm over surge in level of child sexual abuse imagery hosted in EU
Call for Member States to come together and push forward with ‘desperately needed’ child protection laws as thousands of webpages containing children’s sexual abuse traced back to EU servers.
Teens face ‘crisis’ of online sexual exploitation as charity says major new Government-backed scheme will ‘put rocket boosters’ on Online Safety Act
IWF announces ‘ground-breaking’ decision to give thousands of smaller platforms free protection from millions of child sexual abuse images and videos as new report reveals scale of online threat to children.
UK teen’s sex abuse imagery identified thanks to IWF analysts’ pioneering work with policing database
As teens face a ‘crisis’ of online sexual abuse and exploitation, the IWF looks at why getting imagery of older teens removed can be difficult for some moderators.
Peer39 joins with IWF to prevent offenders profiting from the promotion of child sexual abuse content
New collaboration between advertising expert and Internet Watch Foundation will hit criminals in their pockets.
