Images of children aged as young as seven being abused online have risen by almost two thirds while the number of webpages found to contain the most extreme material has doubled in recent years, according to a report.
New law will allow tech companies and child safety agencies to test AI technology to ensure tools have safeguards to stop creation of abuse material.
Groups including the IWF, NSPCC, Barnardo's and The Children's Society wrote to Yvette Cooper to say that violence against women and girls and child sexual abuse are "inherently and deeply connected".
Child safety organisations have welcomed the governments inclusion of child abuse victims in its violence against women and girls strategy.