There are warnings that, with schools being forced to shut, there is an increased risk of children being groomed and coerced online.
Despite travel bans, experts say there must be no delaying what could be a ‘significant’ move for children’s online safety.
The IWF continues to work as usual but, with many staff now working remotely, there may be delays in responding to emails and phone calls .
We teamed up with comedian Arron Crascall, football YouTuber Eman Sv2 and our partner the victim-support charity the Marie Collins Foundation to raise awareness of the important issue of child sexual abuse imagery online via social media.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) today (12 March) published its report into the growing problem of “online-facilitated child sexual abuse”.
The Voluntary Principles to Counter Online Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse are a set of 11 actions tech firms should take to ensure children are not sexually exploited on their platforms.
The Internet Watch Foundation welcomes the Government’s commitment to ‘upgrade’ a database in a bid to tackle online child sexual abuse material.
A fault with Three’s network is incorrectly signposting some Three customers to the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).
Digital Minister Matt Warman paid tribute to the event which took place on Tuesday.
The Internet Watch Foundation has welcomed moves to help protect children online.
