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Annual report 2024/2025

This year marked the final year of our 2020–2025 strategy, as well as the development of our next five year plan. From launching new projects and services, to establishing a dedicated research team and expanding our policy and advocacy work - there is much to be proud of.

Jane Leach - Chair of Trustees
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The number of people we worked with directly across all our services.

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The number of completed assessments for local authorities and others.

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The number of people who received advice and support from our helpline. 

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Our reach
Imagine... if all adults who pose a sexual risk to children, get help before they harm a child. Imagine too that all adults responsible for children understood everything they need to know about child sexual abuse to prevent harm from occurring in the first place, and crucially, can access confidential help when they need it.
  • We worked directly with 16,046 people across our services (2023/24:15,450). 
  • Over 1.8 million people visited our websites.  
  • 8,435 people received advice and support from our Stop It Now helpline.  
  • We completed 218 assessments for local authorities and others and delivered 56 pieces of intervention.  
  • We worked directly with 373 men arrested for online sexual offences to help prevent future offending.  
  • We supported 325 family members affected by the arrest of a loved one for online offences and a further 1,019 family members engaged in online peer support.  
  • We worked with 97 young people who had got into trouble online.  
  • We delivered 76 training events, reaching 1,043 professionals in England.  
  • We delivered 27 training events, reaching 914 professionals in Scotland.  
  • We reached 4,697 people through our education sessions, training sessions, webinars, consultations and newsletters in Wales.  
  • We supported 35 media engagements, including with BBC News, Women’s Hour, The Guardian, The Mirror and The Sun. 
Our research
Imagine... if, through research and development, we could anticipate the next serious risk that children might face – and create preventative interventions and campaigns ahead of time.
  • We introduced a new structure for our research activity, allowing us to track our achievements in four key areas: research foundations, understanding our impact, research in partnership, and communicating our research. 
  • We launched the evaluation of our Stop It Now helpline as part of Prevention Global.  
  • We collaborated with Professor Michael Seto, of the University of Ottowa, to gather important insights on intrafamilial child sexual abuse prevention. 
  • Our ongoing collaboration with Professor Pamela Taylor’s team at Cardiff University allowed us to further develop our understanding of key aspects of our Stop It Now helpline this year.  
  • We supervised and completed a project with Leeds Beckett University on how people who have been investigated, arrested, or convicted for child sexual abuse offences experience the criminal justice system.  
  • Working with the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science and the University of Edinburgh, we recruited a PhD student who will now use a doctoral process to develop a risk assessment tool for under-18s who display harmful sexual behaviour, both offline and online.  
  • We published three Faithfull Papers, which share data and insights about how best to prevent child sexual abuse based on our work. The Faithfull Papers webpage was visited nearly 5,000 times, alongside a range of interactive presentations and webinars on these themes.  

 

Advocacy
Imagine... if government decisions put children’s safety first, and public policy and services were designed with the prevention of abuse – rather than the response after abuse – at their core.
  • In its first statement on illegal harms, Ofcom strengthened its guidance for large search services in direct response to our consultation submission. The revised guidance now recommends that service providers develop warning messages for illegal child sexual abuse searches in collaboration with experts in deterring online child sexual abuse.  
  • We submitted evidence to the Pornography Review. The final report highlighted our deterrence chatbot (in collaboration with IWF and Aylo), our Faithfull Paper ‘What’s porn got to do with it?’, and data from helpline calls in 2023 from adults concerned about themselves who self-reported having problems with pornography.  
  • We worked with partners to ensure the protection of confidential specialist support services for children in the Crime and Policing Bill in relation to mandatory reporting.  
  • Collaboration has been a key feature of our advocacy work and with our partners the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse and the Marie Collins Foundation, we launched the report ‘Closer to Home’, setting out a series of recommendations for policy makers to prevent and better respond to child sexual abuse  
  • We continued to serve as joint secretariat for the Saving Futures Cross-Party Group on Preventing Child Sexual Abuse in Wales and played an active part in the development of the Welsh Government’s next national action plan which will go out for public consultation in 2025.   
  • We were invited to participate in the Scottish Government’s National Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Strategic Group and are members and co-convenors of the Cross-Party Group for Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse.  
  • We published 25 blog posts, which collectively gained 1,565 page views.  
  • We continue to work with the UK government in the Tackling CSA Strategy Third Sector Stakeholder Group.  
  • We worked with the WeProtect Global Alliance as part of their Civil Society Reference Group.  
  • We are active members of the National Crime Agency-led Prevent, Protect and Prepare Board. 

We’ve built on our vital mission to prevent child sexual abuse before it happens, reaching more people through our services. As we conclude our 2020–25 strategy, we are proud of the significant progress we’ve made, laying firm foundations for the future.

Deborah Denis - Chief Executive
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