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.
IWF research into how artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to create child sexual abuse imagery online
The Internet Watch Foundation welcomes the Government’s commitment to ‘upgrade’ a database in a bid to tackle online child sexual abuse material.
The IWF will provide hashes of child sexual abuse images to the online industry to speed up the identification and removal of this content worldwide.
The Internet Watch Foundation assessed more than 50,000 reports to its hotline during 2013. Today (7 April) it reveals the latest trends in assessing and removing child sexual abuse images from the internet.
We've partnered with CHI to build capacity amongst international helpline staff to deal with online child sexual exploitation and abuse.
In conjunction with partners in the private and public sector, we regularly run campaigns aimed at raising awareness & prevention of child sexual abuse online.
Learn how IWF's Hotline assessed over 424,000 reports and 1.2 million images in 2024 to combat online child sexual abuse.
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.