Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) forward planning date

Published:  Mon 9 Apr 2018

The Internet Watch Foundation, the online child sexual abuse charity, will publish its 2017 Annual Report on 18 April 2018.

New figures will include:

  • The latest number of confirmed reports of online child sexual abuse imagery.
  • Trends of where this content is being hosted in the world.
  • The ages of children in the images and the severity of the abuse.
  • The use of technology by offenders to evade detection.

A strictly embargoed press release will be available to media in advance of the launch. To be included on the IWF’s media list, please contact [email protected]. 

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