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  1. IWF urges Apple not to abandon new plans to help keep children safe online

    The Internet Watch Foundation is supporting calls for Apple not to abandon new plans to help keep children safe online.

  2. ‘Definite jump’ as hotline sees 50% increase in public reports of online child sexual abuse during lockdown

    IWF analysts have worked through the coronavirus lockdown to make sure children are kept safe.

  3. Fight against online child sexual abuse content is being won in the UK, but the global threat remains as big as ever, report says

  4. IWF calls on MPs to ‘rise above’ Westminster chaos as IICSA highlights ‘incalculable’ damage from online child sexual abuse

    The internet is “magnifying” risks of sexual abuse for children a major new report has warned.

  5. IWF CEO, Susie Hargreaves OBE, to meet Pope Francis

    By Susie Hargreaves OBE, IWF CEO.

  6. Our campaigns

    In conjunction with partners in the private and public sector, we regularly run campaigns aimed at raising awareness & prevention of child sexual abuse online.

  7. IWF CEO and Hotline Director win at PIER Excellence in Online Protection Awards

    IWF Chief Executive Susie Hargreaves OBE and Hotline Director Chris Hughes have respectively won awards for inspirational leadership, and for operational impact.

  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. 'Staggering' scale of online threat to children revealed as report says 850,000 people in UK could pose sexual risk to children

    The National Crime Agency estimates there to be between 550,000 and 850,000 people in the UK who pose varying forms of sexual risk to children.

  10. Call for experts to help tackle growing threat of ‘self-generated’ online child sexual abuse material

  11. Landmark data sharing agreement to help safeguard victims of sexual abuse imagery

    The UK’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the USA’s National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) announce a landmark agreement to better protect children whose sexual abuse images are shared and traded on the internet.

  12. 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