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09/10/2025: How Upload Prevention Protects Children Online

Today the IWF has published a paper explaining how technology can be used to prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material while upholding privacy – a method known as upload prevention.

(Source: Internet Watch Foundation)

08/10/2025: Nine out of 10 parents of children with SEND raise concerns over lack of support

A significant majority of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are being put at a disadvantage due to a lack of support, according to a poll.

(Source: Children and Young People Now)

07/10/2025: Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’

Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration.

(Source: Guardian)

06/10/2025: Children in Custody Report: Custody is Still Failing Children

Children in custody 2024-25. An analysis of 12-18-year-olds’ perceptions of their experiences in secure training centres and young offender institutions, September 2025.

(Source: Youth Justice Legal Centre)

06/10/2025: Early Exposure, Lasting Harm: New Evidence on Children and Pornography

The Children’s Commissioner’s latest report exposes how children are being exposed to violent and degrading pornography at increasingly younger ages, often accidentally. For youth justice, the findings underline how such early and harmful exposure can distort children’s perceptions of sex and relationships, providing vital context for mitigation in sexual offence cases.

(Source: Youth Justice Legal Centre)

06/10/2025: Child Criminal Exploitation – The Legal Shift Upon Turning 18

A report by Alliance for Youth Justice examines how young people who were criminally exploited as children experience a critical transition at age 18 – moving from recognition as vulnerable victims requiring safeguarding to treatment as culpable offenders, despite their continued exploitation.

(Source: Youth Justice Legal Centre)

03/10/2025: TikTok ‘directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks’

Despite platform’s limits on adult content, study finds it not only accessible but often suggested.

(Source: Guardian)

03/10/2025: Government confirms child sexual abuse and exploitation within scope of VAWG strategy after child protection groups’ letter to Home Secretary

The Government says it will take “concrete actions” to protect victims of child sexual abuse and exploitation as part of their upcoming Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy after the IWF and others wrote to the Home Secretary expressing concern they may have been omitted from the strategy’s scope.

(Source: Internet Watch Foundation)

03/10/2025: Response to surge in extremist rhetoric and activity

We are gravely concerned by the recent escalation in extremist rhetoric and violence across the UK and internationally.

(Source: NSPCC)

02/10/2025: Children in care should have choice of where and with whom they live, says MacAlister

Children’s minister admits objective is ‘alien’ to current care system and says it would require having ‘lots of excess foster carers’, in speech at Labour Party Conference fringe event.

(Source: Community Care)

02/10/2025: ‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?

Some believe AI can spark their child’s imagination through personalized stories and generative images. Scientists are wary of its effect on creativity.

(Source: Guardian)

25/09/2025: Thousands of students report sexual violence at university

Thousands of students have reported being victims of sexual violence and harassment in the first sector-wide survey of sexual misconduct at universities in England.

(Source: BBC News)