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17/03/2025: Online Safety Act: UK Tech Companies must now Tackle Illegal Harms including Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
As Ofcom’s Illegal Harms Codes come into force, platforms are required to implement robust measures to protect users from CSAM and illegal content.
(Source: Internet Watch Foundation)
17/03/2025: Tech Secretary sees ‘heartbreaking’ scale of online abuse on IWF hotline visit as ‘transformational’ online safety rules come into effect
Peter Kyle visited the IWF to see for himself the scale, and severity, of online sexual abuse against children.
(Source: Internet Watch Foundation)
17/03/2025: SWGfL Supports Ofcom’s Enforcement of the Illegal Harms Codes
SWGfL welcomes Ofcom’s enforcement of the Illegal Harms Codes, marking a step in protecting individuals from illegal online content.
(Source: South West Grid for Learning)
16/03/2025: ‘When it’s your kids hitting you, you can’t leave’
Parents and guardians who have suffered violence at the hands of children in their care say support services are a “postcode lottery”. Despite a seeming rise in attacks, alongside greater awareness, experts agree the problem is not being properly addressed. Here, one couple share their experience.
13/03/2025: Keep kids off Roblox if you’re worried, its CEO tells parents
Parents who are worried about their children being on Roblox should not let them use it, the chief executive of the gigantic gaming platform has said.
13/03/2025: Care-experience duty to expand across public sector
The government has amended its Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill to expand corporate parenting responsibilities of councils across the public sector.
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
13/03/2025: Parliamentarians come together to support our Six Point Plan to Protect Children
We’re calling on the government to change laws to better protect children…
12/03/2025: Safeguarding ‘blighted by silence on racism’
An overhaul of safeguarding practice is needed to tackle a failure to address racism and racial bias, say experts
(Source: Children and Young People Now)
11/03/2025: ‘Sea change’ needed in approach to race in safeguarding practice, says national panel
Race and ethnicity of children often not recognised, appropriately explored or understood by practitioners, reports Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel.
10/03/2025: Teens call for youth clubs to tackle knife crime (Bristol)
A group of teenagers have said more youth clubs would help tackle knife crime and gangs.
10/03/2025: Thousands of children risk losing access to vital therapy, warn support providers
Therapists sound alarm over future of Adoption and Special Guardianship Support Fund, which is set to expire at the end of this month amid government silence on its future
10/03/2025: Surge in use of ‘game-changing’ Report Remove service
Child protection analysts have seen a significant rise in reports from children accessing the world-leading Report Remove service run by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) and the NSPCC’s Childline service.