The Home Secretary has warned that Facebook’s plan to end-to-end encrypt private messaging across its apps could put progress in preventing child sexual abuse “at jeopardy”. At a virtual event
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Ofsted will visit schools and colleges facing allegations of sexual abuse after thousands of testimonials were posted on a website that allows students to share their experiences anonymously. Last week,
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A prolific paedophile who posed as girls online to get young boys to send him indecent images of themselves, leaving some of them suicidal, has been jailed for 25 years.
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A man is facing a lengthy prison sentence after pleading guilty to 96 counts of child sexual abuse. David Wilson, of Kirstead, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, appeared at Ipswich Crown Court
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Stricter online protection laws must be introduced after online grooming rose by nearly a third during the Covid-19 lockdown, according to a children’s charity. The NSPCC said there were 268
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The Government is being urged to bring forward “tough” online harms legislation after a children’s charity warned lockdown had created a “perfect storm” for offenders to groom youngsters. Research by
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MPs have launched an inquiry into the “disturbing” rise of self-generated child sexual abuse material. The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Media will investigate the problem, amid warnings of online
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A group of anti-hate charities have formed an alliance on Twitter in a bid to combat hate speech online. The Jo Cox Foundation and Hope not Hate are among the
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The Government has been urged to ensure its Online Harms Bill meets six new tests set by the NSPCC to ensure the regulation of social media properly protects children online.
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Mental health experts are calling for body and face-editing apps to be age-restricted in order to better protect the mental and physical wellbeing of young people. The group of experts
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