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

  2. IWF welcomes renewed Government commitment to tackling online child sexual abuse material

    The Queen used her speech at the state opening of Parliament to reaffirm the Government's commitment to develop legislation to make the internet safer for children and "vulnerable" users.

  3. 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.

  4. Early IWF figures indicate an increase in online child sexual abuse images taken down

    The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) can confirm that the number of reports of child sexual abuse imagery online actioned for removal in the first half of 2015, was significantly higher than in 2014.

  5. Charity wants AI summit to address child sexual abuse imagery

    A leading children's charity is calling on Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to tackle AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery, when the UK hosts the first global summit on AI safety this autumn.

  6. India’s Online IWF Portal passes milestone of 1000 Reports

  7. Protecting all of India’s online citizens is only one step away

  8. ‘It’s a window into the child’s abuse. Thank goodness there is a stop button for us.’ A day in the life of an IWF analyst

    Cambridgeshire mum Lillian* has one of the most unusual and, sometimes, harrowing jobs in the world.

  9. “We’ve got to get a grip on the epidemic on our open internet” - UK charity deals with record number of reports of online child sexual abuse material

  10. '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.

  11. Record reports for online child sexual abuse charity

    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.

  12. Prime Minister must act on threat of AI as IWF ‘sounds alarm’ on first confirmed AI-generated images of child sexual abuse

    IWF confirms it has begun to see AI-generated imagery of child sexual abuse being shared online, with some examples being so realistic they would be indistinguishable from real imagery.