These are deemed 'self-generated material' and, more often than not, they are freely exchanged in the open web.

Younger and younger children have been targeted as they spend more time online, leaving them ever more vulnerable to communities of criminals eager and willing to manipulate them into capturing sexual abuse imagery via their own webcams. The IWF dealt with 361,000 cases just last year, a staggering 25,442 more than the 335,558 cases the foundation assessed in total during its first 15 years of service.

And in a recent revelation from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), 2021 is most noteworthy as 'the worst year on record for child abuse online' due to pandemic lockdowns. The campaign is supported by Barnardo's, the UK's largest national children's charity The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity that focuses on abused children The Marie Collins Foundation, a charity that focuses on children abused using technology and the internet and SafeToNet, a 'cyber-safety company' that develops apps to keep online threats, such as cyberbullying, sexting, and aggression, against children at bay.Ĭhild predators could be anywhere, especially online. An official campaign video for No Place To Hide

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