The UK and US lead the charge in global efforts to combat online child exploitation through stronger safeguards and innovative technologies.
Child protection groups warn there’s nothing to stop imagery sent to Edwards from spreading further on WhatsApp.
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.
Schools Broadband (Talk Straight) became an IWF Member on 1 July 2013. They support us in our aim to eliminate online child sexual abuse.
A new report published by the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Social Media.
Research report by PIER at Anglia Ruskin University, providing insight into girls and their parents' understanding of self-generated CSAM.
We help registries stop their top-level domains (TLDs) from being abused and used to host criminal child sexual abuse imagery.
More people in Britain are concerned about websites showing the sexual abuse of children than other types of illegal, illicit or‘harmful’ internet content. However, more than half of people in Britain currently say that they either wouldn’t know how to report it if they were to encounter it (40%) or would just ignore it (12%).
IWF's work in UK policy. Includes Recent Policy Briefs and Consultations.
IWF Standards of Good Practice for Adult Content Providers
IWF analysts say ‘insidious’ commercial child sexual abuse sites are driving more and more extreme content online.