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  1. Award 'testament to hard work of staff' as IWF campaigns to warn parents and children about online grooming

    The Internet Watch Foundation is pleased to be among the winners of the Digital Communication Awards 2021.

  2. Children coerced to insert household objects into themselves – including a toothbrush and a recorder – for online predators’ pleasure

  3. Vital EU regulation needed to prevent the coercion of children online into most severe form of sexual abuse, as highlighted by new IWF study

  4. Working internationally & fighting self-generated content

  5. Category A child sexual abuse material of a ‘self-generated’ nature – an IWF snapshot study

    An IWF research study on Category A child sexual abuse images and videos which fit the ‘self-generated’ definition.

  6. 20,000 reports of coerced ‘self-generated’ sexual abuse imagery seen in first half of 2022 show 7- to 10-year-olds

    New data released by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) shows almost 20,000 webpages of child sexual abuse imagery in the first half of 2022 included ‘self-generated’ content of 7- to 10-year-old children.

  7. ‘Beyond heart-breaking’ abuse as predators groom children to film siblings and friends

  8. Under sixes manipulated into ‘disturbing’ sexual abuse while playing alone online as IWF says regulation can’t wait

    Internet Watch Foundation sees the most extreme year on record in 2023 Annual Report and calls for immediate action to protect very young children online.

  9. New tool empowers children and young people to stop spread of nude images online

    Childline and the IWF launch new tool to help young people remove nude images that have been shared online

  10. Analyst's ‘hunch’ leads to British schoolgirl’s rescue from online child sexual abuse

    An IWF analyst’s instincts told him he could act quickly to intervene after he received an anonymous tip off.

  11. IWF analysts finding fifteen times more child sexual abuse content online than they were ten years ago

    Expert analysts have taken action against 200,000 websites containing child sexual abuse material

  12. Under 10s groomed online ‘like never before’ as hotline discovers record amount of child sexual abuse

    Alarming increase in online grooming and child sexual abuse imagery, particularly among under 10s, in 2023 as reported by the IWF.