IWF and Stop It Now! to develop ground-breaking chatbot to combat online child sexual abuse
14
October
2020
A new chatbot targeting people trying to access online child sexual abuse images will be developed by the Internet Watch Foundation, in partnership with Stop It Now! and The Lucy Faithfull Foundation.
The chatbot, named ‘reThink’, will engage with internet users who are showing signs that they might be looking for images of child sexual abuse.
Online solutions to online problems
The automated pop up will attempt to
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The latest figures from The Lucy Faithfull Foundation outline the impact of the range of child protection work carried out between April 2018 and March 2019, including some record-breaking numbers.
In a year that saw a £600,000 funding boost from the Home Office, our Stop It Now! helpline took calls and emails from thousands of people. The money was granted to increase the number of operator hours on the helpline from January 2019
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The Lucy Faithfull Foundation responds to the government's online harms white paper consultation
04
July
2019
The government’s aim for the UK to be the safest place in the world to go online will soon be informed by the views of experts and the public. After publishing their online harms white paper in April, the government opened a consultation taking opinions from interested parties – including The Lucy Faithfull Foundation.
Deborah Denis, director of fundraising and external relations at The Lucy Faithfull Read More
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The home secretary, Sajid Javid, has announced plans to publish a new cross-government strategy to tackle child sexual abuse. The strategy will focus on both online and offline abuse, and will bring together different government departments, charities and other organisations to coordinate the different ways they work to keep children safe.
In September, Mr Javid announced a partnership with The Lucy Faithfull Foundation, including a
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News from the Internet Watch Foundation
24
April
2019
According to data released today by The Internet Watch Foundation, 105,047 URLs containing child sexual abuse imagery (CSAI) or videos were identified and blocked over the last year, an increase of more than a third on the year before.
The IWF have said that much of the increase was due to an improvement in the technology it uses to detect and assess criminal content.
Promisingly, they have also found that the proportion of images
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The Lucy Faithfull Foundation is the only UK-wide child protection charity dedicated solely to preventing child sexual abuse. It works with entire families affected by or concerned about abuse including: adult male and female sexual abusers; young people with inappropriate sexual behaviours; victims of abuse and other family members; front-line workers and professionals.
In response to the government's Online Harms White Paper,
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Around a third of sexual offences against children and young people are carried out by other children and young people. So if we’re going to prevent sexual abuse towards children, we need to work with young people who have displayed harmful sexual behaviour. Sian Meader, our clinical manager for young people’s services, explains more about our young people’s project.
Helping young people in the online
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The Home Office has today announced funding to The Lucy Faithfull Foundation’s Stop It Now! helpline of £600,000.
The confidential helpline has been running in the UK since 2002. It deals with all aspects of child sexual abuse prevention, including direct contact abuse, child grooming, and harmful sexual behaviour of a child or young person.
The funding boost comes following a sharp 65% rise in callers and visitors to the
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