Consultations
Wherever relevant we share our expertise, tactics, good practice and self-regulatory partnership approach with organisations, policy-makers, Hotlines, governments, law enforcement agencies and others around the world.
We work with UK government to influence initiatives developed to combat online abuse and this dialogue goes beyond the UK and Europe to promote greater awareness of global issues, trends and responsibilities. As part of this the IWF is often asked to respond to consultations with relevance to our work. Below are the IWF’s submissions to recent consultations:
- IWF response to the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny Committee of the Draft Online Safety Bill
- IWF response to the European Commission’s public consultation: Fighting Child Sexual Abuse: detection, removal and reporting of illegal content online
- IWF response to the UK Governments Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy
- IWF response to Mozilla DoH consultation
- IWF response to the Digital Services Act
- IWF response to the European Commission's Roadmap 'Delivering for children: an EU strategy on the rights of the child'
- IWF response to the European Commission's Roadmap on a new strategy for a more effective fight against child sexual abuse
- IWF response to the Home Affairs Select Committee Inquiry on the Home Office preparedness for and response to Covid-19
- IWF response to the UN Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children
- Executive Summary of the IWF's response to the Online Harms White Paper
- IWF response to the Online Harms White Paper
- IWF position on Online Harms White Paper
- IWF response to the Home Affairs Select Committee Report: Future of Policing
- IWF Evidence Session to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Inquiry into Social Media & Screen Use
- IWF response to the House of Lords Communications Select Committee Inquiry into the future of internet regulation
- IWF response to the European Commission’s consultation on tackling illegal content online
- IWF response to the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s Internet Safety Strategy Consultation
- IWF response to the Home Office's consultation on Policing in the 21st Century: Reconnecting police and the people - September 2010
- IWF response to Ofcom’s consultation on Traffic Management and 'Net Neutrality' - September 2010
- apComms Inquiry on Internet Traffic - May 2009
- Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee inquiry into harmful content on the internet and in video games – July 2008
- Byron Review – call for evidence - December 2007
- Government consultation on the Possession of Non-Photographic Visual Depictions of Child Sexual Abuse- 2007
- EC consultation on safer internet and online technologies for children - 2007